Comments on: Easy Steps for Securing Your CMS Made Simple Installation

By: stef

stef — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:37:05 +0000

Thanks for theses advices. I am novice in CMSMS .
I’ am testing in on one site and I see that my file .htaccess is stored only on a subdirectory “doc” , not on the root . Should I copy it in the root and change acording to what you mention?
Thanks

By: Stoffer

Stoffer — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 09:32:39 +0000

Brilliant and very useful article. My friend’s site (that I manage) got hacked and it took me ages to get rid of all the crap they put on there. They managed to get in with a ROOT user. I still don’t see how as I never set up a ROOT account. They deleted my friend’s user access too.
Anyway, all sorted now and thanks again for these tips.

By: Quintin

Quintin — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:10:40 +0000

Very useful info. We just recovered from a hacker attack, that was quite nasty. We are still not sure how they got in, it may have been CMS, but we are not sure…in any case, we have taken steps at all levels to prevent this from happening again, and this is one more step that will hopefully keep the bad guys out. Thanks so much for posting this info.

By: Birgit

Birgit — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 17:59:25 +0000

I especially like No. 3!

By: kenumir

kenumir — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:46:05 +0000

simple and easy to implement in existing sites and systems