phpBB.com Hacked

[Dark Tranquility]

Hey !
the phpBB.com site/ demos/ forums have been hacked and this since 1 hour or so, The siemens crew, who did this are anti-Bush !! but what's the relationship between Bush and phpBB.com ?

here's the text written by hackers:

"Simiens Crew

Por Um Mundo Melhor



Se pudéssemos ter consciência do quanto nossa vida é efêmera, talvez pensássemos duas vezes antes de jogar fora às oportunidades, que temos de ser felizes e fazer os outros felizes.Muitas flores são colhidas cedo demais, Algumas mesmo ainda em botão.Há sementes que nunca brotam e há aquelas flores que vivem a vida inteira, até que pétala por pétala tranqüilas, vividas, se entregam ao vento.Mas a gente não sabe adivinhar.Agente não sabe por quanto tempo estará enfeitando esse éden, e tampouco aquelas flores que foram plantadas ao nosso redor.

E descuidamos.Cuidamos pouco de nós, dos outros.Nos entristecemos por coisas pequenas e perdemos minutos e horas preciosas.

Perdemos dias, às vezes anos.Nos calamos quando deveríamos falar, falamos demais quando deveríamos ficar em silêncio.

Não damos o braço que tanto nossa alma pede, porque algo em nós impede essa aproximação.Não damos um beijo carinhoso “porque não estamos acostumados com isso”, e não dizemos que gostamos porque achamos que o outro sabe automaticamente o que sentimos.

E passa a noite e chega o dia, o sol nasce e adormece e continuamos os mesmos, fechados em nós.Reclamamos do que não temos, ou achamos que não temos suficientes, Cobramos dos outros, da vida, de nós mesmos, nos consumimos.Costumamos comparar nossas vidas com as daqueles que possuem mais que a gente.

E se experimentássemos comparar com aqueles que possuem menos?

Isso faria uma grande diferença!

E o tempo passa...

Passamos pela vida, não vivemos.Sobrevivemos, porque não sabemos fazer outra coisa até que, inesperadamente, acordamos e olhamos pra trás.E então nos perguntarmos: e agora?

Agora, hoje, ainda é tempo de reconstruir alguma coisa, de dar o braço amigo, de dizer uma palavra carinhosa, de agradecer pelo que temos.

Nunca se é velho demais ou jovem demais para amar, dizer uma palavra gentil ou fazer um gesto carinhoso.Não olhe para trás.O que passou, passou.

O que perdemos, perdemos.

Olhe para frente!

Ainda é tempo de apreciar as flores que estão inteiras ao nosso redor.Ainda é tempo de voltar-se para Deus e agradecer pela vida, que mesmo efêmera, ainda está em nós.

Pense...

Não a perca mais!...

et / join simiens"

This is portuguese so I guess they are from brazil anyway I 've attached a screenshot !!

[lo0ol]

Originally Posted by Dark Tranquility

the phpBB.com site/ demos/ forums have been hacked and this since 1 hour or so, The siemens crew, who did this are anti-Bush !! but what's the relationship between Bush and phpBB.com?

It doesn't matter if there's a connection or not; phpBB.com services a large demographic and those types of groups thinks they can change the world and whatnot by posting their message. And stuff.

Politics. :\

(Granted I have no idea what the heck they're saying in the message, so I could be wrong. Perhaps they're advocating a new kind of toothbrush, who knows.)

[someonewhois]

That's why you don't use phpBB.........

Seriously though, it's such a horrible forum to use. When you're that far behind in features, you should be trying to keep a similar feel as the leader, but they seem to think they're going to start a new road and be completely different and come out on top. It's ridiculous. (And I hate their code too).

[Mike]

If we could have conscience of the as much as our life is ephemeral, perhaps we thought twice before of throw away to the opportunities, that ourselves happy and do the others happy.many flowers are reaped early too, Some even still in button seeds that never sprout and there is those flowers that live the entire life, to that petal by tranquil petal, lived, if deliver to the wind.but the peopleBy as much as time will be decorating that éden, and neither those flowers that were planted to our around.

And neglect take care little of ourselves, of the others we sadden us for small things and we lose minutes and precious hours.

We lose days, sometimes years.us we silence when we would must to speak, we speak too when we would must stayed in silence.

Do not we give the arm that so much our soul asks, because somewhat in us stops that approach. do Not we give a loving kiss “because we are not usual with that”, and do not we tell that we like because we find that the another knows automatically what do we feel.

And it passes the night and arrives the day, the sun is born and goes to sleep and we continue the mesmos, closed in us.claim than do not we have, or we find that do not we have sufficient, we Charge of the others, of the life, of us mesmos, us consume.Costumamos compare our lives with the of those that possess more than the people.

And we experienced to compare with those that possess less?

That would do a big difference!

And the time passes..

We pass for the life, not live.survive, because do not we know to do another one thing to that, unexpectedly, we wake up and we look pra backwards.and then we will ask us: and now?

Now, today, still it is time of reconstruct something, of give the arm friend, of a loving word say, of thank for what do we have.

Never it is been old too or youth too for love, say a word gentil or do a gesture loving.not look backwards what passed, passed.

What do we lose, we lose.

Look at front!

Still it is time of appreciate the flowers that are entire to our around.still is time of come back itself for God and thank for the life, that even ephemeral, still is in us.

Think..

It lose not more! ...

Uh, yeah, just what I thought it said...

[computerages]

Originally Posted by Mike

Uh, yeah, just what I thought it said...

You thought it yourself or Google Translator helped you out?

[john.stone]

This is what happens when geeks don't get laid...

[The New Guy]

They just have to enter something...

[dreaz]

lemme translate for you...

If we could see how much our life "sucks", maybe we could think twice before throwing away opportunities, that we have to be happy and make others happy.
Lots of flowers are catch too early.
Some seeds never grow, and some flowers live all life, untill that petal by petal, they are delivered to the wind.
But we don't know how to guess. We don't know how long the flowers will be planted around us.

And we neglect, take little care of us, of thers. We get sad for small things and loose precious hours.

blablablabla it goes like this.. then it says

Its still time to thank god.. etc..

Think.
Don't loose it anymore..

I don't know the english version of some words there, but its all about valuing life, so no real hacking messages..
Hope it helps


[edit]
Oh.. It was translated already by some translation software, aniway it's not perfect because of some uncommon words..

[biggazillakilla]

I'm not a coder, nor do I use PHPBB, but I have to say that I really admire them--they created probably the most used forum software in the world, enabling countless people all over the globe to be able to have an interactive site up and running fairly quickly. And all for free.

As I said, I don't use the product, so I can't speak to its quality, but I do read their announcements forums from time to time, and it does seem like the project is still going full steam, unlike a lot of other open-source projects that just die.

I think it's a shame that they got hacked; it'll be a real black-eye for them, I'm afraid.

[someonewhois]

Originally Posted by biggazillakilla

I'm not a coder, nor do I use PHPBB, but I have to say that I really admire them--they created probably the most used forum software in the world, enabling countless people all over the globe to be able to have an interactive site up and running fairly quickly. And all for free.

As I said, I don't use the product, so I can't speak to its quality, but I do read their announcements forums from time to time, and it does seem like the project is still going full steam, unlike a lot of other open-source projects that just die.

I think it's a shame that they got hacked; it'll be a real black-eye for them, I'm afraid.

It's an absolutely horrible product. It doesn't compare to vBulletin at all. Mind you, it's paid, but still. Using the fact that it's free shouldn't be an excuse to be years behind in development.

Personally, I'd rather if phpBB was paid or inexistant. The idea of everything being free kind of disgusts me, as a developer. Not being paid for the work is almost disgraceful. It's not quite as bad as people at Rent-a-coder.com charging $2/hour, since that's freelance, but still.

Just my 2 cents though. Something tells me it won't affect them (the hacking) though, they backup etc..

[geniusgoalie]

Originally Posted by someonewhois

It's an absolutely horrible product. It doesn't compare to vBulletin at all. Mind you, it's paid, but still. Using the fact that it's free shouldn't be an excuse to be years behind in development.

Personally, I'd rather if phpBB was paid or inexistant. The idea of everything being free kind of disgusts me, as a developer. Not being paid for the work is almost disgraceful. It's not quite as bad as people at Rent-a-coder.com charging $2/hour, since that's freelance, but still.

Just my 2 cents though. Something tells me it won't affect them (the hacking) though, they backup etc..

So you're against open-source software?

[someonewhois]

I like it to an extent. It's good for small projects, and tinkering. But things the size of phpBB shouldn't be free. They deserve money.

But no, I have nothing against OSS.

[biggazillakilla]

I agree that they deserve money. I was happy to see them start running AdSense ads.

I know people will differ on their views about the coding of PHPBB, but to bring things back on topic, I think it's terrible that they were hacked.

But I have to wonder--what the heck is such a high-profile site as PHPBB.com (it's had a PR of 10 in the past!) doing with such vulnerabilities on their server? That's what I don't get.

[someonewhois]

Yeah, it kind of sucks that they got hacked.

As for vulnerabilities - phpBB's been known to have a lot in the past (there were viruses spreading around the world through phpBB), someone might've found another one and exploited it before it as reported (or maybe it was reported, but they took a while to fix it).

[Dark Tranquility]

Originally Posted by someonewhois

Yeah, it kind of sucks that they got hacked.

As for vulnerabilities - phpBB's been known to have a lot in the past (there were viruses spreading around the world through phpBB), someone might've found another one and exploited it before it as reported (or maybe it was reported, but they took a while to fix it).

In version 2.0.11 they fixed many security issues and vulnerabilities
the basic features are poor indeed, but u can always use hacks for a free Open Source is not that bad I believe for instancve it is better than Ikonboard.com

[psoTFX]

You guys, you're funny, really you are

For starters ... to our best current understanding this was not caused by an issue with phpBB itself. Instead it appears to have been an issue with awstats. Several other sites have been attacked within the same time period by the same people and those sites seem to have laid responsibility at awstats door. Equally no other major phpBB sites seem to have been attacked.

As for those in this thread who don't like phpBB ... that's your perogative. What a boring world it would be if every site ran phpBB, of course most sites do run phpBB but never the less choice is good Features? 2.0.x is old, nearly four years old, we know that, you know that. 3.0 is shiny and new with a great many (useful) features ... and from preliminary tests on a very large, very popular forum, fast It's a shame some of you are mesmerised by large feature lists to the point you cannot see that some people don't want this.

As for security ... phpBB is as noted old, and in that time we've suffered from several exploits ... show me a piece of software that hasn't. More, show me a piece of software as well used as phpBB that hasn't. Jelsoft recently released two new versions of vB in quick succession IIRC. One release was accompanied by a note suggesting people change passwords, etc. because they weren't entirely sure their forum hadn't been compromised through one of these issues. All board software had had and will continue to have problems.

We are working to bring www.phpbb.com back online ... in the meantime users are welcome, indeed encouraged to visit our dev board for continued "coverage". Those needing support can visit one of the (many) other phpBB sites or visit our IRC channel (#phpbb) on irc.freenode.net

Thanks to those in this thread who think before they write.

[someonewhois]

Originally Posted by Dark Tranquility

In version 2.0.11 they fixed many security issues and vulnerabilities
the basic features are poor indeed, but u can always use hacks for a free Open Source is not that bad I believe for instancve it is better than Ikonboard.com

Haha. Ikonboard. Hahaha. I remember back then - hey you gave me a copy of scriptomania for free over at ikonboard. (It was pretty preliminary, it messed up all my file type associations and I got annoyed at you )

[Dark Tranquility]

Originally Posted by someonewhois

Haha. Ikonboard. Hahaha. I remember back then - hey you gave me a copy of scriptomania for free over at ikonboard. (It was pretty preliminary, it messed up all my file type associations and I got annoyed at you )

lol when was that? what version of scriptomania was it? did you try the last version? lol

[someonewhois]

Originally Posted by Dark Tranquility

lol when was that? what version of scriptomania was it? did you try the last version? lol

It was one of the very first betas, haven't tried it since (Mind you I haven't tried any text editor except Editplus for a few years now) I remember it took over every single web-related file extension (asp, php, html, css, js, tpl, even ones I'd never heard of), and it left it like that upon installation. I'd probably be safe to assume it's gotten much better since then (3 years ago, maybe more).

[ket]

Originally Posted by Dark Tranquility

This is portuguese so I guess they are from brazil anyway I 've attached a screenshot !!

ahahaha. Its portuguese...so why can't it be from Portugal?

But when taking a closer look at the letter, you're right. The way its written, and looking at some expressions, its from Brazil

But don't forget that the portuguese language comes from Portugal, not Brazil.

[biggazillakilla]

Tsk, tsk, all this linguistic possessiveness.

Originally Posted by ket

ahahaha. Its portuguese...so why can't it be from Portugal?

But when taking a closer look at the letter, you're right. The way its written, and looking at some expressions, its from Brazil

But don't forget that the portuguese language comes from Portugal, not Brazil.

Do you use a gente, as in a gente não sabe adivinhar, in Portugal?

[ket]

Originally Posted by biggazillakilla

Tsk, tsk, all this linguistic possessiveness.

Do you use a gente, as in a gente não sabe adivinhar, in Portugal?

I don't use it, but there are many people that use it. "A gente" is wrong portuguese, its incorrect!
When you say "a gente" it seems like you're saying "agente" from the police~ The correct way to say is something like: "Nós não sabemos adivinhar"

bigga: How do you know portuguese and one common mistake ( a gente )?

-edit- nevermind, i just read your post title and says you speak brazilian

[biggazillakilla]

Originally Posted by ket

When you say "a gente" it seems like you're saying "agente" from the police~ The correct way to say is something like: "Nós não sabemos adivinhar"

bigga: How do you know portuguese and one common mistake ( a gente )?

Isn't a gente more like "the people?"

And I wouldn't say it's incorrect, more like slang.

Yep, I learned Portuguese in Brazil, in Rio to be more precise. I love that language!

[DMacedo]

Hi,

That message has Brazillian-Portuguese (pt-br) language aspects, it's very different from Portuguese (pt-pt).

biggazillakilla, it is correct to use 'a gente' when you are using it as third person: 'those people' or 'everyone'.
eg.
'esta gente é maluca' (these people are crazy)
'toda a gente gosta do SitePoint' (everyone likes SitePoint)

But it is wrong to use it as a first person reference as 'we' or 'us'!

Tricky language ...

[Dark Tranquility]

Originally Posted by ket

ahahaha. Its portuguese...so why can't it be from Portugal?

But when taking a closer look at the letter, you're right. The way its written, and looking at some expressions, its from Brazil

But don't forget that the portuguese language comes from Portugal, not Brazil.

Acredito há algumas diferenças entre barzilian e português que eu pensei que isso era brasileiro. falo espanhol e posso entender português mas escrevendo ou falando é demais duro para mim.

did u get me lol ?