On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 13:09:36 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 11:13:43 +0100, Kev Dwyer wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> This is joomla, that is, PHP. There are a bazillion ways to hack PHP. By
> the OP's own account, his website has been hacked twice before and he's
> done nothing to fix the vulnerability, just restored from backup. He'll
> be hacked again, and again, and again.
>
> Why are we discussing this? It has nothing to do with Python and is
> completely off-topic for this list.
the case may be off topic, but the principles and advise being given is
well worth taking note of regardless of language.
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