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Update on the hacked Joomla! website

In a previous post we looked at a business website which had been hacked. Before making the post we had contacted the site owner and advised them that their site had been compromised. The response we received was: We know … Continue reading

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Securing Directories and Files on a Joomla! website

In our first post we referred to the Joomla Administrator’s Security Checklist and in subsequent posts we have described some simple steps you can take to improve the configuration of your. Tom Canavan, the author of the Joomla! Web Security, … Continue reading

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Next Steps to Securing your Joomla! website

In the last post we explained some simple steps that you can take to improve your Joomla! website’s security. These steps addressed simple changes to you site’s core configuration to reduce the risk from some known exploits. Another area which … Continue reading

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