Posts from Kevin in thread „Victim Of Hackers“

We have reached our goal!!

Thanks to all who have contributed. Now on to the next step...

We have reached $135! $25 to go.

Thanks to all who have donate so far!!

We are at $105 which means there is only $55 to go.

Once we raise the $160 then I'll remove the donate button at the top of the page.

Again thanks and it'll not be long before we'll be moving in...

Thanks for your offers of support!

I'm looking to try to tackle this before the end of the year, so we can start enjoying the new system in 2007.

I do have a paypal account that can be used so members can contribute to the "New Forum Fund" but this is voluntary and there isn't and never will be any requirement to pay for any function on this site! I feel this place has to be free for all to enjoy!!

If your interested in helping out by donating to the forum software then please PM me directly.

At this time, I'm looking at getting the vBulletin (Owned License), so once we have reached the $160 mark then no further donations will be accepted..

Thanks to all for the offers of help.

I do believe it's time to move to another more updated forum system. The vbulletin owned license is $160 but that's a one time fee. I would prefer to go with the owned license which will allow dukewayne.com to use it indefinitely.

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Originally posted by Robbie@Nov 30 2006, 08:17 AM

Hi Everyone

I think its a great shame that these people can cause so much disruption via their illegal activity, but on the flip side they evidentally have no lives and probably sit behind a computer 24/7 with no concept of the real world.

Obviously Kevin I would be happy with a transfer to a new board if it would be greater security and a much reduced risk of hacking. I noticed in your previous post that you mentioned that it was free to use the script that currently hosts the messageboard, is the new one your suggesting going to come at a cost?

In addition to this will a change in script allow the posts etc on this board to remain intact?

Thanks in advance
Robbie

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Hi Robbie,

The vbulletin has a yearly "leased" license or a "Owned" license which cost even more. I haven't decided which way to go with that.

As for the posts I will be able to import all existing forums, categories, and member data. The only thing that everyone will need to do is the first time you visit the new board you'll need to reset your password and have it resent to you via email.

Hi Everyone,

This type of thing happens often, even more often than you may realize. This last hack may have not come from a register member, but I haven't been able to determine that yet, but I'm still going over the log files.

The hack occurred about 8 pm Monday night, which was only shortly after I was on the board viewing posts. I only wish I had been able to catch this quicker. This issue has made me feel that we need to make a move to a new messageboard script which is very secure, and efficient called vbulletin. This new script looks and acts very much like the current board setup. The current board script (called Invisionboard) is a free to use version, and it has many exploitable areas to it which are not present with the new script. Of course every messageboard on the internet is not immune to this and there is never any guarantees that says this wouldn't happen again.

By going to the new setup we would be using the most popular and widely used message board script on the internet, which means that it has a large group of developers working to improve it and find the little exploits that an evil doer needs to deface the site.

You can view this site http://forums.photobucket.com/ to see what this new board looks and feels like.

Enough of this technical stuff......