Along these growing years in the developemnt of Joomla,Joomla has came over to be the best and most reliable Content management System. But in recent explores,we have came to a conclusion that,Joomla sites can be easily hacked by some little tweaks also.

So how to prevent yourself from being hacked??

• WHILE INSTALLING JOOMLA,MAKE SURE YOU CHMOD ALL THE IMPORTANT FILES AND FOLDERS TO 644 OR SO. MANY PEOPLE LEAVE IT AS 777 AND SO ITS EASY FOR THE HACKERS TO GET INTO IT EASILY.
• ALWAYS CHECK JOOMLA SECURITY SUB FORUM AT http://forum.joomla.org
• ALWAYS CHANGE THE PASSWORD OF THE ADMIN ONCE IN A WEEK OR MONTH.ITS A REAL TOUGH JOB FOR SOMEONE WHO HAS NO KNOWLEDGE IN DATABASE TWEAKING AND IS A COMPLETE NOVICE IN THIS STAGE.SO FOR HIM,IT NEEDS SOME GOOD TREAT.IM EXPLAINING IT IN EASY WORDS THOUGH.YOU MUST BE KNOWING THAT JOOMLA DOESNT SAVE YOUR PASSWORDS IN NORMAL CHARACTERS,BUT IT SAVES IT IN MD5 FORMAT. SO HERE IS THE TRICK. FIRST OF ALL,YOU JUST CANT CALCULATE THE MD5 VALUE OF YOUR DESIRED PASSWORD,WHICH YOU WANT TO PUT AS NEW ADMIN PASSWORD.SO JUST REGISTER AS A NEW MEMBER AND ENTER THE PASSWORD FOR HIM,WHICH YOU WANT TO KEEP AS THE NEW ADMIN PASSWORD. NOW GOTO PHPMYADMIN FROM YOUR cPANEL AND GOTO jos_users TABLE IN THE SQL DATABASE OF THAT JOOMLA WEBSITE ONLY.THERE YOU WILL FIND A LONG CODE IN PLACE OF PASSWORD FIELD FOR THE NEW USER WHICH YOU REGISTERED. JUST COPY IT AND THEN EDIT ADMIN DETAILS AND PASTE THAT IN PLACE OF ADMIN'S PASSWORD FIELD. ITS DONE NOW..

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already hacked...any solutions on troubleshooting?
written by soy, May 26, 2008

my site is already hacked...any solutions on troubleshooting?

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