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According to this article, there is a flaw in the VBulletin software (that is used to power this discussion board) that was apparently fixed on July 21, see:
According to this article, there is a flaw in the VBulletin software (that is used to power this discussion board) that was apparently fixed on July 21, see:
The flaw affects version 3.8.6 of the software, which was released on 13 July.
We use a far older version so we're good.
Secondly, the article is full of nonsense. Such as the part about you being able to obtain the administrator's password. vBulletin stores the passwords in encrypted form, encrypted using the password itself as a key. That means that it would be virtually impossible for anyone (Except maybe the NSA?) to decrypt the password as stored in the database. That's just one example.
Secondly, the article is full of nonsense. Such as the part about you being able to obtain the administrator's password. vBulletin stores the passwords in encrypted form, encrypted using the password itself as a key. That means that it would be virtually impossible for anyone (Except maybe the NSA?) to decrypt the password as stored in the database.
That is assuming that the admin of the forum isn't dumb enough to use a common-word password that is in the MD5 decryption database. But the article makes it sound like just anyone could accidentally get the admins password and that is not correct. For example, a typical common password such as... "password" would show up as 5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99
Mine for instance is a 25 character alpha-numeric-symbolic code that appears to be totally random. So yes we did get hacked once, but that was through another method, not password stealing and we have a safer version since then.
Oh and incidentally people, don't go testing at the site to see what your actual password would look like in MD5... all that does is ensure that its encrypted form IS in their database.
That is assuming that the admin of the forum isn't dumb enough to use a common-word password that is in the MD5 decryption database. But the article makes it sound like just anyone could accidentally get the admins password and that is not correct. For example, a typical common password such as... "password" would show up as 5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99
Mine for instance is a 25 character alpha-numeric-symbolic code that appears to be totally random. So yes we did get hacked once, but that was through another method, not password stealing and we have a safer version since then.
You are still being impossibly naive. Hacks to crack passwords like that have been around for decades and anyone who really wants one (I don't) can get one easily and for free. Yeah, a dictionary attack will take a little bit of time, but it's just cpu time.
Anyone who really wants to crack the kind of password you are speaking of can do so. Especially today when any desktop system outperforms the old Cray supercomputers of the 1980's.
That's okay, lots of disagreement happens here. Now if we were having this discussion as Americans, we'd be in big trouble. Depending on who is interpreting the law down there, could get in trouble just for talking about how to break through vulnerabilities
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