Obviously you have no clue what the difference is between hackers and crackers. Hackers want knowledge. They are dangerous because they know a lot. They know how to hack into sites, they have good program skills but they don't abuse it. They usually warn the webmaster to make the site more protected against attacks and tell him how to do that. They 'hack' into systems to find exploits to make the internet more safe.Defiance wrote:
There's a difference between hackers and crackers. Hackers crack into Fort Knox and give FedEx an order to pick up ten bars of gold, and it actually happens. Crackers exploit a small PHP glitch and reset a website.
Hopefully the SQL for the server wasn't lost, just reinstall the forums and you should be fine.
Oh, and start taking backups from now on in case the forum was lost.
crackers abuse systems to gain personal benefit. These people are frowned upon by the 'real hackers society'
And then you have scriptkiddies who want a larger e-penis and use tools to get into systems but have no clue what is going on.
And isn't there a webmaster with all powers who can reinstate the normal admins?