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Tuesday, 30 September 2008 11:53 |
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Recently a few security holes have been exploited in the later versions of Joomla 1.5.X. If you're running a version of Joomla that is earlier than version 1.5.7 the please put in a request to have your site upgraded to the latest version of Joomla as soon as possible. The security hole enables hackers to gain access to the administration area and upload malicious scripts. Usually these scripts are simply just spam scripts sending out 100,000 emails an hour and are actually harmless to your site but they do use up your hosting resources and your domain name is at risk of being blacklisted as a spam domain.
If you're not sure what version of Joomla you are running, just log in to the administrator back end area and look in the top right hand corner of the browsers. The version number should be there on all 1.5.X installations. On any older version of Joomla 1.0.X , the version should be in the footer of the administrator area.
IFrame Hack
Another hack that we have come across places an iframe in to the main index files of the Joomla installation in order to spy in keystrokes and capture emails. If you notice your site function incorrectly or not rendering right then this could be the case of the iframe hackers.
You can get read more about the iframe attacks at the forums. Best way to avoid the attacks is to:
- Use the latest version of Joomla
- Upgrade to the latest version of PHP5
Contact us if you would like your site upgraded to the latest version or if your Joomla site has been hacked.
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