A secure democratic Net is a fundamental right

the first analysis that we can make from the ongoing cyberattacks is that vbulletin sites are being attacked and that if you are not running the latest versions and haven't closed down every opportunity to bypass it or to upgrade your rights (from user to moderator) you will be attacked, period.

If you have a site with a forum and that forum is not essential for your business you should think about the possbility of closing it down and maybe changing it to a blog (and take a hosted version don't try to set it up yourself if you are no specialist).

the same goes for Joomla sites, but we are getting fed up with repeating this old song about Joomla insecurity