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18-08-2008, 04:13 PM
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  Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Somewhere in Oldham
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Rep Power: 8  |  Our Joolma site has been hacked Our school Joomla website has just got hacked, I have informed our website technician who is on his hols, hopefully he can get it taken off asap. Just informing you guys in case others get hacked!! |
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18-08-2008, 04:29 PM
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  Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Rochdale, Lancashire
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Rep Power: 37  | was your database password the same as your server password? Is your server been hacked or the domain? The server seems to be based in the isle of man. z |
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18-08-2008, 04:39 PM
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Rep Power: 7 | I hope your school has (regular) backups! |
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18-08-2008, 04:42 PM
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Regrading the backups, I have no clue if we have any, I don't deal with the website myself. | |
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18-08-2008, 04:45 PM
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18-08-2008, 04:49 PM
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Rep Power: 8 | The website was only recently setup, have no idea how we got targetted? Anyway hope we have a backup  |
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06-09-2008, 05:45 PM
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| Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Rochdale, Lancashire
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Rep Power: 37 | see the site is up and running was it the site or the sevrer itself that was compromised? Z |
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06-09-2008, 09:30 PM
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Rep Power: 28 | Key thing to know is what version of Joomla were you using.. There were some security exploits in earlier versions of 1.5 and you have to be careful that you don't use any apps/add-ons that also have any exploits. |
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06-09-2008, 11:40 PM
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 Join Date: May 2007 Location: Aberystwyth
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Rep Power: 11 | Just to make you aware, once you get an exploit like this you should treat the whole machine as compromised until proved otherwise. We recently had an old Joomla site hacked and once in they tried to run a load of root kits against the server, fortunatly our apache is well setup to they failed. I assume you either had a weak password or more likely as mentioned above were using a version of Joomla which had known exploits. Cheers Jona |
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07-09-2008, 09:56 AM
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Rep Power: 0 | Just curious, what form did this attack take and how were you alerted? |
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