My Forum Will Be Hacked Soon...

[Hardcore Gamer]

I keep on getting threats from this one member, I've banned him multiple times today and he's already made 20+ accounts and I've IP banned them all but he keeps on getting new IP's. What can I do to get rid of him? He's made a video on his YouTube explaining that he took down another very successful forum today and he's now targeting mine.

I need help on this ASAP as I cannot keep my eye on the forum 24/7 and the mods are doing as much as they can at this time. Please help.

Thanks.

[SLGray]

Here are some topics that deals with forum security:

http://help.forumotion.com/t11386-forumotion-maximum-security-for-your-forums

http://help.forumotion.com/t51-internet-security-on-your-forum-habits-to-be-avoided

http://help.forumotion.com/t75418-my-forum-was-hacked

http://help.forumotion.com/t10581-forum-security

[Sir Chivas™]

Alright,

Calm down. You can do this for now,


ACP>>USERS &GROUPS>> users >> users Options >>New accounts activation >> [Admin].


That way, he'll register, but his account won't be active.

The only way of maybe hacking your forums will be by, giving them Admin powers, if you don't, then they can't.

[Hardcore Gamer]

Thanks for the info, guys. Will look into that also, Sir Chivas.

As I said, he's recently taken down a very successful site/forum that isn't a Forumotion forum and it has gotten me very worried.

[Sir Chivas™]

No problem, glad we helped.
hope you get rid of him good luck

[Hardcore Gamer]

Thank you. Appreciate it.

If a legit member does sign up, how do I activate his/or her account? Will I get a e-mail?

[Sir Chivas™]

Users & groups >> inactive users >> options of activating or deleting the account

So have an administrator or you to check it everyday

[Hardcore Gamer]

Will do, and thanks once again.

Just check it then and he seems to have already made two other accounts while this thread went up. Damn.

[Sir Chivas™]

Alright then. Is your problem solved?

If so, nice helping you out!

Since I can't do anything about that. That's really up to you. Sorry.

[Hardcore Gamer]

Yeah, it's solved... for now. He says we have five days to make a sub-forum dedicated to him on our forum or he'll hack it, just like he did with the other forum.

[Sanket]

You always have the option to backup your forum. If someone has to do something, he will anyways do it.

http://help.forumotion.com/t9692-the-utilities-backup-and-restore

[Hardcore Gamer]

Thanks, Sanket.

Hmm, seeing how he's been this persistent I'm sure if he does successfully take down my forum, and I get it back up and running again, he'll just do it again.

And if the above does happen, how would I be able to stop it? Just keep changing the e-mail/password recover a backup? I just want to be prepared for this if it all does go down...

[Sanket]

Best way is to ignore whoever is trying to threaten you.
If something goes wrong, do a backup. He will do it 10 times, but without you budging down he will lose the battle. So ignoring the person's threat will be your way of tackling the user. You have the option to backup everytime.

[APE]

To help stop this guy make sure you ban the ip and Email address they will soon get sick of having to make a new Email address each time you ban it, make a note of the address each time and maybe if the Email address is always Hotmail you could report it to them aswell i did this only 2 weeks a go and Hotmail got back to me and said there look into it for me but i have not had no report back but then again the problem has gone away now.

so maybe try and ban the Email account and keep an eye on the Email address he she is useing

I wish you all the luck

~Ape~