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Ensuring my test board won't be hacked
09-18-2007, 12:48 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 174 Location: Cornwall, UK      | Ensuring my test board won't be hacked I have a test board set up for Silver Firefly Studios and I've password protected it via .htaccess and .htpasswd but will that be enough to stop people from hacking into my test directory? I've turned off registrations and turned the board off etc. Is there anything else I should do to make sure my test board won't be hacked?  | ||||
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09-18-2007, 02:44 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 10,246 Location: Athens, GA   | Why are you so concerned about this? .htaccess protection alone is sufficient to keep people out....Can it still be hacked? Sure it can, the finest hackers in the world can do just about whatever they want...but I don't see why anybody would be so inclined to hack your test forums, and I don't know why you would be so concerned if they do 
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09-18-2007, 03:22 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 174 Location: Cornwall, UK | Well, for starters, the styles I'm working on are stored there. Even though I backup, it's a hassle to have to restore if it gets hacked. Hackers are petty minded IMO, I'm guessing there are some out there who will hack just for the hell of it. | ||||
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09-18-2007, 03:49 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 1,312 Location: Delaware Recent Blog: New to Talk Delaware | i doubt it, unless you give them motive. | ||||
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09-18-2007, 05:31 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 161 Location: Scotland
| Just disabling registrations alone would be enough, defientely .htaccess protection. Even putting it in a strange named directory such as www.yourdomain.com/fh3fdshnf should be ok. They also wouldn't gain anything from hacking it, no money and no publicity. | ||||
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09-19-2007, 02:34 AM
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09-19-2007, 02:39 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 101 Location: US | Quote:
Who's going to find it? - if you place a robots text file in your root directory telling the googlebots to get lost. B. | |||||
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10-21-2007, 11:31 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 16 Location: OH-IO
| I would think that you're safe with .htaccess protection. They'd have to beat that kind of protection, and then find the security hole to actually hack the board. I don't know if they have that long of an attention span. | ||||
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10-29-2007, 09:35 PM
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11-15-2007, 11:54 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 74 Location: Birmingham, UK | In quite alot of cases, it would be your server which would be compromised - in this case you probably do not have to worry as i'm assuming that you have shared hosting i.e. your web host will manage the security of the server (note: this does not prevent attacks on outdated forum software).
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