Learn By Mistake
My server was intruded by some hackers who set up some phishing bank sites. Got alert emails from Hostrocket as well as the associated banks on this issue.
Spent almost the 3 hours trying to tighten up security by re-looking into folders for CHMOD permissions and installing some plug-ins for wordpress that will tighten such exploitation.
Emailed hostrocket on some online-read-about solutions for hosting company to play a part as well to tighten the security.
Anyway, very techinical…shan’t talk much here. Daniel, write to me your views on this though
Oh boy … sorry for the delay!
Well, best solution would be to backup databases and clean everything and install up to date versions. But as I don’t know what they used to break in or how you install your software (you put in your own stuff or the hosting company provides the software?)
The thing is, when there’s a break in they hide a bunch of stiff. That’s why its best to clean everything. Try to look hidden files, but in some break ins they can actually manage to hide all that.
If you can’t do that, well look for new users added into the database and modify every password.
For the future, always try to update software to latest versions.