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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1229944" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>Our forum has been converted from vbullletin to xenforo due to an unpatched security hole in vbulletin:</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.informationweek.com/security/attacks-and-breaches/vbulletincom-hacked-customer-data-stolen/d/d-id/1112660" target="_blank">vBulletin.com Hacked, Customer Data Stolen</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/11/password-hack-of-vbulletin-com-fuels-fears-of-in-the-wild-0-day-attacks/" target="_blank">Password hack of vBulletin.com fuels fears of in-the-wild 0-day attacks</a></p><p></p><p>That vbulletin exploit is now being offered for sale by a well known hacker group. Vbulletin's consistently terrible customer support has not yet provided a security patch or any real info to their customers about what happened or how we can protect our sites. Every forum run on their platform may now be vulnerable.</p><p></p><p>A member of the staff from xenforo forum was hired to perform the actual database conversion and he also installed a much better search engine for the new forum.</p><p></p><p>I didn't explaining this on the public side until after the forum had been converted because I didn't want to alert wanna be hackers to the potential security hole.</p><p></p><p>I apologize in advance for the inconvenience but it seemed better than leaving the site vulnerable to hackers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1229944, member: 1"] Our forum has been converted from vbullletin to xenforo due to an unpatched security hole in vbulletin: [URL='https://www.informationweek.com/security/attacks-and-breaches/vbulletincom-hacked-customer-data-stolen/d/d-id/1112660']vBulletin.com Hacked, Customer Data Stolen[/URL] [URL='http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/11/password-hack-of-vbulletin-com-fuels-fears-of-in-the-wild-0-day-attacks/']Password hack of vBulletin.com fuels fears of in-the-wild 0-day attacks[/URL] That vbulletin exploit is now being offered for sale by a well known hacker group. Vbulletin's consistently terrible customer support has not yet provided a security patch or any real info to their customers about what happened or how we can protect our sites. Every forum run on their platform may now be vulnerable. A member of the staff from xenforo forum was hired to perform the actual database conversion and he also installed a much better search engine for the new forum. I didn't explaining this on the public side until after the forum had been converted because I didn't want to alert wanna be hackers to the potential security hole. I apologize in advance for the inconvenience but it seemed better than leaving the site vulnerable to hackers. [/QUOTE]
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