The TRUTH about the vBulletin forums MySQL security flaw

Courtesy DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Sun, 07/25/2010 - 04:39

Many of the biggest forum-based online communities, including DaniWeb, are powered by vBulletin software. So it came as something of a shock when the BBC reported that a vBulletin security flaw means that any hacker could "easily access the main administrator username and password for a site" .

But is the security flaw really both that simple and that serious, and are DaniWeb users at risk?

Let's answer the most important question first: No, DaniWeb users are not...


 

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