Re: forum hacked - windowsforums8.com
Well, I'll tell you what the problem is. Despite the fact they've just been defaced, it would seem that they're still running both vBulletin 4.1.10 (latest (now insecure) 4.1 branch: 4.1.12, latest 4.2 branch, 4.2.2 PL3) and a copy of the really outdated VBSEO. The copy of vB is the most concerning though. It's certainly possible that they're quietly slipping in the security updates as they come along to avoid breaking their theme, but to be honest it just feels like a completely out of date website running ancient software absolutely riddled with software vulnerabilities. And they've just been hacked and it looks like they're **still** running that same out of date software software. Perhaps not, but that's how it would appear externally. Who knows what's going on internally though - there are mitigations possible.
EDIT: There's no difference in the domain, is there? It simply hasn't been fixed yet, the hackers just changed the homepage only so if you navigate directly to forum.php all works fine and all has always worked fine.