My board was hacked

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Originally posted by Neo
Actually I have seen this problem with many hosting companies. Many of them are to lazy to make anything totally secure... like being able to gain root access.

I told them about it but they yelled at me and said I shouldnt be hacking....which makes sence but what is a "real" hacker comes along? o_O

all you have to do is use htaccess, neo.
all your hacker attempts are history then. so protect your admin and phpmyadmin folders and you wont be able jack hack nothing at all.

try it and let me know how unsuccessfull you were, once protected with htaccess.

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Originally posted by freddie
... and adding hacks to your forum makes it much less secure. This is something that is overlooked by most. Turning register_globals off helps alot since that will solve most cases of sql injection and always use intval() and addslashes().

hmm i agree freddie. we need Hack Reviews. definitelly.
some people install hacks and have no idea why or how they are created, but they like the features of it.
they dont ask themself, "ok this hack is it gonna ruin my board?"
no. not at all.

that's why the reviews come handy. people with code experience could drop a line there to guide the novice coders who "attempt" to release a hack just for the fun of it.