One of my joomla webpages has been hacked. Please help.

Kev Dwyer kevin.p.dwyer at gmail.com
Sat Sep 22 06:13:43 EDT 2012


Νίκος Γκρεεκ wrote:

> Τη Σάββατο, 22 Σεπτεμβρίου 2012 10:26:05 π.μ. UTC+3, ο χρήστης Peter Otten
> έγραψε:
>> Νίκος Γκρεεκ wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> > One webpage of mine, http://www.varsa.gr/ has been *hacked* 15 mins
>> > ago.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> > Please visit my web page varsa.gr and view the source code and maybe
>> > you
>> 
>> > can tell me what has happened.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Do you use a password that was exposed in the other thread,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2012-September/630779.html
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ?
> No, that was for another web page of mine utilizing python mysql
> connection, this was joomla only website which remind me to also ask if i
> can embed somwhow python code to joomla cms.


This is only speculation, as I don't know exactly how your web page has been 
"hacked", but if your page somehow exposes a database connection, and the 
hack involves changing the contents of the database then you should read up 
on SQL injection attacks and how to prevent them. 

Cheers,

Kev




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