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November 21, 2005

Security Discussion

On the FreeBSD security mailing list, there is a post about a compromised box which got many interesting replies: Need urgent help regarding security

Category : Security

Posted by FreeBSD Newbie at 07:22 PM | Comments (0)

November 16, 2005

Contact Form Abused Through BCC Field

A simple contact form on my website was abused to send spams. I received weird messages sent from the contact form in the past two weeks, I thought it was just from some boring persons, and didn't pay attention to it until I got some messages bounced back from other servers. After checked the mail queue, I was shocked that there were still a few emails with a very long recipient list.

Here is my original code:

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Category : Security

Posted by FreeBSD Newbie at 11:08 AM | Comments (1)

November 05, 2005

No. 1 Keyword Referrer "phpBB Hack"

Google seems to like this blog a lot, new posts were picked up and ranked in the top 10 within a couple of days...simply amazing to me. Although this blog has quite a few keywords with great ranking such as "FreeBSD server", the most searched term is "phpBB hack". Several visitors even came here with "how to hack phpBB".

Clearly, phpBB has caused lots of problems on Unix/Linux systems, might be the most troublesome PHP script ever. If you are looking for a forum script, avoid phpBB, no exceptions!

Category : Security

Posted by FreeBSD Newbie at 12:09 AM | Comments (1)