ListMessenger Logo
ListMessenger For Joomla 1.5.x WordMark
Home FAQ Turbo! Blog About Contact

We helped fix 50+ Joomla Website’s that were Hacked

July 18th, 2006

Many Many more Joomla based sites are being hacked daily at the moment - and ITS NOT JOOMLA’s fault!
Firstly let me say the sites were NOT hacked through Joomla! They were all hacked through Joomla Custom Components!

If you are running Joomla 1.0.10 then there are no known security holes in that version!

HOWEVER here is a long list of custom components that have been used to hack Joomla sites, If you have any of these custom components you may get hacked!!:

extCalender
OpenSEF
phpBB Forum (com_forum)
SimpleBoard Forum
VideoDB
Mambo-SMF Forum
LoudMouth
PollXT
HashCash
perForms
Google Page Rank Module
BSQ SiteStats
MultiBanners
MiniBB
New Article Component
Advanced Poll
JomBok
ArtLinks
PCCookBook
Mambo/Joomla SiteMap (Custom Component)
Galleria
com_spray

and many other components

I write this to inform you of thiese facts, and also to let you know, as our customer, that none of the components on www.phil-taylor.com have been hacked or used to hack Joomla websites! Yippee!

You should really only install components from TRUSTED sources, from developers that you trust!

Again, ALL COMPONENTS ON PHIL-TAYLOR.com Have been HACKER SAFE certified! And have no known security issues (At this moment in time :-) ) As experts in Joomla development we take pride in checking our components with an industry standard (expensive!) scanning solution used by the big players worldwide!

We have fixed over 50 hacked sites for new customers worldwide in the last 7 days!

Did your site get hacked? - we can help!

Dont Panic!
Fix My Site is a very unique service offered by Phil Taylor.
(This is a fee per incident based service, no contracts and no strings involved!)

Fix My Site puts a very experienced and knowledgeable Mambo and Joomla expert at your fingertips when things go wrong on your site. For a set fee, you can have Phil Taylor (Or one of our other experts) login and take a look at that problem that has causing problems on your site.

See our site at http://www.phil-taylor.com/FixMySite

ONLY TRUST THE EXPERTS! - Beware of some other help sites that simply repair your site without giving advice on how hackers gained access or how to prevent further attacks. We are not just Joomla experts, we have huge amounts of experience in this area and can draw on this experience to provide the very best solution for you.

You have been warned!

No Comments »

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI

Leave a comment


Joomla! is Free Software released under the GNU/GPL License.
This is not an official Joomla! Site, or Product. The use of the
word Joomla! is intended to describe what the product is designed
for and should not be considered an endorsement by the Joomla Project.