Many of you may have noticed that yesterday IMG experienced about a 24 hour downtime. The cause of this was an attack by a "web worm" that defaced html and php files on IMG. It defaced our files by using a perl script thanks to a vulnerablity in the freeware forum software we used called PhPBB. The clever script has to ability to search Google and find other PhPBB forums to infect.

This is actually the second time our forum was attacked due to a vulnerablity in the forum code. Folks, we're not going to let it happen a third time. IMG will no longer be using PhPBB and we'll be switching to a more robust and feature rich forum. It may take us a couple of days to set up but it will be worth the wait. All forums posts have been preserved and no data has been lost.

Please note that this was not a specific attack on IMG but rather part of an attack on any web site that used that particular forum software. We also want to insure all our readers and customers that at no time was any personal or financial data ever comprised.

Tuncer Deniz
Publisher

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