A Welcome To Adam, And Patch Your phpBB Box!

[Janak Parekh]

First off, please join me in welcoming our new sysadmin, Adam Lynch. He's going to be joining Jorj Bauer, our existing sysadmin, in optimizing our box and making sure it works smoothly.

Second, I'd like to apologize for the downtime this morning. We woke up and noticed something was wrong when Jason's account was renamed on Smartphone Thoughts. 8O Thanks to Jorj and Adam in helping us track down what exactly happened. (What a day to be a new sysadmin. :lol

For those of you curious and for those of you who run your own webboards: if you use phpBB, you should take note of this phpBB exploit notice and latest update and install it immediately. There are hackers on the prowl today breaking into boxes all over the place and they're installing backdoors as well.

[Janak Parekh]

First off, please join me in welcoming our new sysadmin, Adam Lynch. He's going to be joining Jorj Bauer, our existing sysadmin, in optimizing our box and making sure it works smoothly.

Second, I'd like to apologize for the downtime this morning. We woke up and noticed something was wrong when Jason's account was renamed on Smartphone Thoughts. 8O Thanks to Jorj and Adam in helping us track down what exactly happened. (What a day to be a new sysadmin. :lol

For those of you curious and for those of you who run your own webboards: if you use phpBB, you should take note of this phpBB exploit notice and latest update and install it immediately. There are hackers on the prowl today breaking into boxes all over the place and they're installing backdoors as well.

[Pat Logsdon]

Originally Posted by Janak Parekh

First off, please join me in welcoming our new sysadmin, Adam Lynch. He's going to be joining Jorj Bauer, our existing sysadmin, in optimizing our box and making sure it works smoothly.

Welcome, Adam!

Originally Posted by Janak Parekh

(What a day to be a new sysadmin. :lol

On the positive side, a trial by fire makes one less likely to be burned in the future. Good job, guys!

[Mitch D]

Welcome Adam,

May the PPC gremlins have mercey on you sole!

:!:

[JvanEkris]

Welcome,

Please watch good over the box, tell it is a nice machine, DO NOT KICK IT, and do not put pizza in it.....

Jaap

[OSUKid7]

Welcome Adam. So SMT was hacked? or rather exploited? Ah what a world we're coming to. Glad to hear everything's back now though. Best of luck in the future.

[r90a22]

Welcome, AdAm

[Jason Dunn]

You have NO idea how happy I am to have Adam on board. :mrgreen:

[Jonathon Watkins]

Indeed. Good to have you on board Adam.

Reminds me of my first day at a previous job as tech support - the day the 'I Love You' virus hit. 8O :lol:

[Mike Temporale]

Welcome Adam! I'm sorry we had you up and running on the first day.

Thanks to everyone that got their hands dirty this morning. Take a trip to Starbucks on me. :mrgreen:

[Godsongz]

Looks like PPCT is still based on 2.0.8 which isn't vulnerable to that exploit, but SPT was on 2.0.10? DMT too maybe?

I had just finished updating one of my heavily modded sites to 2.0.10 the day before the exploit was announced. Ugh Thankfully its not too big of an update to jump to 2.0.11, only took me about 15 minutes.

Welcome Adam!