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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 22 2014, 06:57 AM (511 Views) | |
| Robje | Mar 22 2014, 06:57 AM Post #1 |
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Two people Zachriel/raziel and Dinorexchris12753 Have Hacked my site. http://w11.zetaboards.com/The_nature_fans/index/ What Can I do ? I managed to Ban them but somehow... |
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| Moonface | Mar 22 2014, 09:58 AM Post #2 |
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How exactly did they "hack" your board? |
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| Ferby | Mar 22 2014, 10:27 AM Post #3 |
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My question exactly. It is pretty easy to get past a ban from a ZB board. If you're banning their account then they can create a new one if they're smart enough. If you ban their email they can use another one and if you ban their IP they can reset their router (or unplug & replug in) to change it so there's no 100% ban them even if you ban their entire country (NOT RECOMMENDED) because they could use an online proxy. If they have your password and are using your account for their own deeds then I'd advise changing your password to something that meets all 4 of ZB's safe password guidelines (both lower & upper case characters, numeric characters, symbols and keeping it long). |
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| sugarpuff | Mar 23 2014, 10:48 AM Post #4 |
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Someone I know who has a zetaboard had a similar thing happen to him only just recently. He's now got this: https://www.sitelock.com// You might want to consider taking a look. Yes it costs, but for peace of mind........... My domain hosting company has something very similar so I'm going to get that for mine. Hope this helps. Also, if you haven't already, make your registrations admin/email approval as well and check ALL ip's before you let them in, to make sure they arn't using a proxy server. http://www.whatismyip.com Edited by sugarpuff, Mar 23 2014, 10:50 AM.
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| Ferby | Mar 23 2014, 01:13 PM Post #5 |
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I wouldn't recommend that unless you want your forum to be private. You can't tell if a person is using a proxy or not when they register so if you're open to new members and you require each account to be approved, it becomes inefficient. Users don't want to wait to be let in. They want to get right to as quickly as they can. I do, however, approve of email approval as that helps but there have been cases when the email doesn't send for some reason. Even if you disable both of these things, they still have to enter the CAPTCHA text to determined if they're human. |
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| Pete B | Mar 23 2014, 01:38 PM Post #6 |
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You don't need that, just set a secure password on your forum and email accounts. |
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| sugarpuff | Mar 23 2014, 01:43 PM Post #7 |
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You can tell if it's a proxy server if you check their IP before you let them in. Something I've always done. It was just a suggestion. Only trying to help.
Edited by sugarpuff, Mar 23 2014, 01:44 PM.
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| Mozz | Mar 24 2014, 12:10 AM Post #8 |
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" It’s not a bug – it’s an undocumented feature "
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I am the one Sugarpuff mentioned 4 hours of fixing it up, mine was done through my router, cause it did not clear a test admins account password for some reason, this the reoport i put up on Nexus.
Oh and the site link, it is worth it, it has a lot of different things that are put in place, woe to thee who hacks a password now . But i agree, unless they have got a password, there nor going to get in. |
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