PHPBB.com Hacked

PHPBB official website (www.phpbb.com) has been compromised...


PHPBB( PHP Bulletin Board) is an internet forum package in PHP language. Recently on Sunday, December'2014 it was seen that the official website for PHPBB was compromised and the site was immediately put down for maintenance.

This is what the index page of PHPBB.com looks like after the attack. The maintenance notice is put down by the PHPBB officials clearly stating about the attack and also conforming that the personal PHPBB forums are safe and were not being compromised by the attack. You can view the PHPBB website(www.phpbb.com) for the Downtime Notice.

phpbb.com downtime notice after the attack

As stated, it would take take several days to rebuild the system back.
The investigations on the case are going on, but for now there are no signs of how and by whom the attack was done.

Top 10 Hacking Quotes

Get to know about the best quotations about Hacking from the list prepared by us...


We have prepared a list of top quotes about Hacking by top known hackers, Anonymous group and others, which would motivate and encourage one, practicing hacking or even wishing to do so, at any stage in their life.

1. The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear...
                                            - Kali Linux


2. Never tell everything you know...
               - Roger H. Lincoln


3. I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual            challenge,the curiosity, the seduction of adventure; not for    stealing, or causing damage or writing computer viruses.
                                       - Kevin Mitnick


4. Give a man a truth and he will think for a day. Teach a man to  reason he will think for a lifetime.
                      - @Anon Group


5. But we are HACKERS and hackers have black terminals with green  font colors. 
    - J. Nunemaker


6. We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.
     - @Anon Group 

7. Sometimes I feel like Giving Up! Then I Remember ~ I have a Lot of MotherF*Ckers to Prove Wrong.
               - Pcbots Labs

8. When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the  leaves. 
   - Anthony J. D'Angelo

9. Hackers are actually good, pleasant and extremely intelligent people who could keep computer criminals on the run.
                                    - Ankit Fadia

10. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
      - Henry David Thoreau


Some other quotes - 

*  Hacking is not a crime, it's a profession till the time you play with it safely.

*  There's a hack for everything. 

*  If you rate a programmer or coder 7.5/10 on knowledge basis, you  would definitely have to rate a hacker 10.

* Hacker is just not about hacking. This is about making too. 

   (shared by @arc)

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