Joomla Hacked, Annoyed yet?
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- Jayson Brown
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I think I've had no less than 5 customers this year get their sites defaced by worms / hackers wannabies etc...
Normally this is due to not being johnny on the spot with the patches that are out there.
I guess my question is why isn't there a better way to manage all these joomla sites... If you're a reseller and have 10/20/100 customers running joomla there needs to be an app for you (the reseller) to simply force a patch to all your joomla installed customer sites... Even with that, you're left with addons/coms that don't get updated as they should.
/sigh...
Personally I'm getting to the point where I don't even want to suggest it to customers anymore. I'm finding it more annoying than helpful.
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- Andy Miller
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- Web Kahuna
- the most likey culprit is permissions. if you run a secure set of permissions (ie no world readable stuff) you should be in pretty good shape. Joomla is one of the most secure cms' out there.
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- Peter Osipof
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- I too was hacked on February 3, 2008, my whole site was deleted.
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- Bob Ateah
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Peter Osipof wrote:
I too was hacked on February 3, 2008, my whole site was deleted.
That really sucks Peter. >
I hope that you have recent backups. - The member formerly known as Roland Deschain
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- Andy Miller
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- Web Kahuna
- I forgot the most common cause of hacks - 3rd party components!!!! be wary of any 3rd party components and only run the absolute minimum of components. And remember in joomla 1.0, even if you are not using a component, but have it installed, you are still vulnerable. In 1.5 you can actually turn off components without uninstalling to combat this issue.
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- Peter Osipof
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- I have backup of the site, the problem I was using Joomla 1.0.12 or 11 can't recall, I didn't upgrade because I have Joomla bridged with SMF and the SMF bridge doesn't not support Joomla 1.0.13 and 14, the site remains down as it make no sense in restoring because I can't upgrade Joomla due to the bridge issue, I am looking for someone to code/fix the SMF bridge to work with Joomla 1.0.14
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- Bob Ateah
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- Godspeed and best of luck to you Peter.
- The member formerly known as Roland Deschain
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- Andy Miller
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- Web Kahuna
- Alot of 3rd party components don't focus on security like the joomla core does, and it's VERY easy to make a component that's not secure. Most hacks are the result of holes in 3rd party extensions.. just be wary, stay on top of updates, monitor forums, etc.
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