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Joomla Security Issues that Get Sites Hacked

Posted by Bojan Sorenson on September 20, 2017 in Hosting Tutorial

As Joomla site recovery specialists, we're regularly approached for help and see the same Joomla vulnerabilities come up time and again. What's sad is that they are incredibly easy to correct, but once a Joomla site is hacked it comes at considerable cost to get it fixed and secure again. The Security Issues #Issue 1: Build it and Forget It The number one cause of hacked sites is lack of maintenance. It is incredibly simple

Tips to Protect Your Joomla Site from Hackers

Posted by Bojan Sorenson on August 8, 2017 in Hosting Tips

There several ways to make hacker job as difficult as possible. If you run a Joomla 3.5 (or older) website, you should absolutely take at least basic steps to secure it against intruders. Some facts, according to Sophos Labs, 30,000 new sites a day that are hacked! Yes, that’s a shocking number. I guess you want be part of this stats. Some of them (site owner) may say: "It won’t happen to me. I have small

Tips to prevent and secure Joomla 3 from being hacked

Posted by Bojan Sorenson on July 31, 2017 in Hosting Tutorial

Here follow a list of tips to keep your site secure and prevent the most common attacks that use know exploits in Joomla websites. Security tips Prevent script execution in .htaccess There is something easy that can save your site from being hacked and used as source for spam senders. In some hacked sites I found lot of malicious php files inside sub-sub-subfoders of media, images or tmp joomla default folders. Why there? Because when your site