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To: Khepera

CMS is a content management system. Joomla is used by a lot of orgs both left and right to build web sites. The site hacked is the program’s web site portal. Not a good sign for the most recent build concerning security.


7 posted on 08/18/2007 6:14:16 AM PDT by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghan Honor Roll students.)
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To: armymarinemom

Army,

Depends on the hack. Of course this could be bad for the most recent build *or* an admin got lazy and did not properly secure his site. Could be a poor apache or mysql config. Then again it could be a poorly written stored procedure.

Look at the hack of the ubuntu site recently. They were running on unsupported hardware so they could not patch the kernel *and* they were running clear text ftp. Happens to windows, Linux, Solaris, and pretty much every app out os out there..


34 posted on 08/18/2007 8:16:36 AM PDT by N3WBI3 (Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
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