For those of you missing the good ol' days on our vbulletin forum

[Phil Herring]

http://arstechnica.com/security/201...fears-of-serious-internet-wide-0-day-attacks/

Suffice it to say, there were reasons we left it and this was exactly the kind of thing I worried about.

 

[Charles Erwin]

Well done. So tell us - how did you reckon there was risk? Rumor? Complain to VB and be ignored?

 

[Brian D]

Timing, it is all in the timing.

 

[Phil Herring]

Well done

Lucky, is more accurate. I had no idea anything was imminent, of course, but do a quick search on https://vcedetails.com for vbulletin and you'll get the idea. As the forum software aged and dependencies got more complicated, you had to figure something would go very wrong.

 

[Davidasailor26]

I heard about that news this morning and thought about how well that timing worked out. Thanks as always for all your work Phil.

 

[justsomeguy]

Skillfully avoided!
Of course, none of our information is still floating out there in vBulletin cyberspace, right?

 

[Phil Herring]

none of our information is still floating out there in vBulletin cyberspace, right?

That is a good question but no, it has been disconnected from the database.

Edit: And just to be sure I moved all the scripts except for redirects into an archive.

 

[DHaranSailor]

Well done Cap'