If you use a popular message board like phpbb you need to make sure you've always got latest version. The more popular a message board is, more hackers are likely to strike. Perhaps familiarity is problem or maybe hackers know they can get a lot of bites going after a widely used board. As of this writing, most current version of phpbb is 2.0.15. As phpbb guys are always security conscious they have added to this version a re-authentication to access administration panel.

Forums are a very important part of a website, but they can be downfall if your board script is not updated on a regular basis.

Some Trivia... During early years of Internet boom (1994-1996), my company HolliCom Internet Services hosted main PHP mailing list and some of PHP website for Rasmus.

Rasmus was always extremely gracious with his support and I will always feel a debt of gratitude to him for enabling me to make a living all these years. 10 of them!

So, happy birthday to PHP! Here's to many more!