<<Phpbb 2.0.19 Released>>

Vincecross said:
has some security fixes and a new feature to help against spam attacks / dictionary attacks!
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wow lol... care to elaborate on dictionary attacks? I'm interested
 
Well on PHPBB your display name is also your User ID, so they have 1 of 2 pieces of the puzzle.

Dictionary attacks is when someone sets up a bot to continually log into a phpbb with a known username and basically spams the board with bad passwords. Currently PHPBB does not lock out a user after X attempts, with the new patch it locks out at X attacks determined by the administrator of the board. It can also temporarily lock instead of permanently etc...
 
oh noes, someone can post fake posts by me and can read the cyborz PMs that raherin, homogenn, and liam send to me... sheiza....
 
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