How PHPBB Site was Hacked and How You Can Prevent it

The simplest way to start this topic is, PHPBB is hacked. You must have heard of it by now. And there is an equal chance that you haven't. A community with almost 200.000 human members and 400,000 subscribed users have lost their privacy inside that community and there was nothing PHPBB could do but to put up a foolish status message like this just below.

But the question is, how did the hacker (say script kiddie if you like, but I don't think 90% of the people naming him that can do half of what he did. No glorification though) do it? Here is a step by step description.

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MySQL Tip: MySQL Server Has Gone Away Or Lost connection to server during query Fix

A much dreaded MySQL error message during queries is "MySQL server has gone away". An alternative message is "Lost connection to server during query". This is a strange problem which afflicts a wide variety of PHP software including but not limited to WordPress. There are several causes for it. Let's look at the common and some rare causes and what you can do to fix it.

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