Site Hacked
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- sharon dwyer
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Hi
This may be pure coincidence but I thought I would ask to be on the safe side. I have a site that was hacked in august by a Turkish hacker. I was using the dimensions template at the time. Prior to using dimensions I had a starlight template from elsewhere on the net and it was fine.
I thought it was the joomla version so I upgraded to the latest version and switched it back to my starlight template. I upgraded again and then switched back to dimensions a few days later I got hacked again. I have made not changes to the site or the latest version that was already on there and switched back to my starlight template and its been a couple of weeks and it is fine. I am worried now that the site has only been hacked when dimensions was on it. Any ideas please.
Thanks
Sharon
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- prim
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You probably got "hacked" when you used Joomla 1.5.5 or 1.5.6. The so-called Turkish hackers are usually just script-kiddies who uses others work...
Anyway, i assume you have a clean backup with all your data so...
I would clean my database and completely reinstall the latest version of Joomla. Then i would import the database and other files. This shouldn't take long really
Yves mentioned a plugin some time ago that prevented people from accessing /administrator without a password but i can't find it right now.
Btw, i've never heard of a site being hacked because of a specific template. Hmm, i suggest you check your server for so-called root-kits if possible. Otherwise your webhost will need to check it.
Good luck!
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- Yves
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prim wrote:
Yves mentioned a plugin some time ago that prevented people from accessing /administrator without a password but i can't find it right now.
See jSecure Authentication . - Yves
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- Ben Lee
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I posted my notes on installing jSecureAuthentication here:
http://www.rockettheme.com/forum/index.php?t=46753&rb_v=viewtopic#p243903
One more note:
Be sure to go back and download the latest version of all templates, plugins, modules, components, etc.
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- sharon dwyer
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Hi Thank you all very much for your help and suggestions I have installed jsecure and it is excellent
again thank you
Sharon
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