Hello vb team;
Our site lately has been targeted for backlink spam and our google results have plummeted. It's been an ordeal. Our site currently runs vb 3.8.1 and I know there has been updates since...and I was looking for a changelog. I want to upgrade to the latest 3.8 release because I'm sure its more secure..but hate to affect any of my modifications.
Anyways my co-admin posted a google topic here: http://www.google.com/support/forum/...65239f1c&hl=en
and we got a response from this person willing to help and offer suggestions. He was able to create a duplicate userid on our forums and post. So now we have 2 userids of the same name, so he somehow compromised our vb forums to show us that it's insecure.
This poses some concern for us, because I'm sure we are being targeted for spam, as google stopped indexing us.
What are some recommendations? I need to know how to better secure our forums. Starting with upgrades or htaccess, etc. Any links or any information would be so much appreciated.
Thank you vb support!
Our site lately has been targeted for backlink spam and our google results have plummeted. It's been an ordeal. Our site currently runs vb 3.8.1 and I know there has been updates since...and I was looking for a changelog. I want to upgrade to the latest 3.8 release because I'm sure its more secure..but hate to affect any of my modifications.
Anyways my co-admin posted a google topic here: http://www.google.com/support/forum/...65239f1c&hl=en
and we got a response from this person willing to help and offer suggestions. He was able to create a duplicate userid on our forums and post. So now we have 2 userids of the same name, so he somehow compromised our vb forums to show us that it's insecure.
This poses some concern for us, because I'm sure we are being targeted for spam, as google stopped indexing us.
What are some recommendations? I need to know how to better secure our forums. Starting with upgrades or htaccess, etc. Any links or any information would be so much appreciated.
Thank you vb support!
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