Guild Website Security

[chandizzle]

The typical guild website with at least 10 bucks to spend on hosting may look pretty decent. It may have its own domain name, maybe some graphics, maybe a member login system and forums. But one thing they seem to lack - not entirely, but enough to allow many hackers to gain entry - is security. I recently looked some of the guild websites. This is because officers of a guild may want and/or desperately need a website and have money for hosting, but that doesn't that anyone there is a PHP wizard. They weren't all terrible, but I was able to do find a potentially dehabilitating flaw in the majority of sites. Now I'm not a proffesional IT expert or a full-time hacker, but I can see that many guild websites are in need of security. So just be careful about your guild website: its security and what data you store on there.

 

[Unregistered]

OH NOES

Oh god i better go put some work into my guild site security, so that you can't leet hacks my officer discussion on the douche bags in my guild.

 

[chandizzle]

My opinion is:
Don't put anything on the server that's doesn't serve a signifigant purpose. i suppose it's up to the admins discretion if stuff like humor fits in this category, but no matter what there is one guarantee.
More pages means more code, more code means more places where there could be a vulnerability. for example, if you decide to start up a meaningless poll and you're one iota unsure about the security of the poll submission, it probably shouldn't go on the site.

 

[Getpaid]

OOO!! Please test my guild's web site. It's www.hailkhaos.org
I would soooo love to bust my site admin's itty bitty balls for this one

 

[chandizzle]

Getpaid, that would be fine by me but there are certain, uh, legal problems with that. I'm thiiiiiis close to getting my balls busted anyway, so please, no more requests to hack. My first tests were already a bit sketchy in a legal sense. Remember though, I didn't damage anything or read confidential files, to all who hate hackers out there.

 

[Jan]

Sounds awfully convenient.

 

[chandizzle]

Sounds awfully convenient.

if that sounds awfully convenient then you obviously don't realize how many people there are out there who flat-out dislike hackers and would be willing to report them, im also a bit paranoid sometimes. i have nothing more to say.