Carelessness Kills a Cat
Posted by Jun on August 24, 2008
About 2 weeks ago, I received an e-mail from Barrie North of Compass Designs, telling me about a security vulnerability within Joomla 1.15 wherein a person could get in and change my admin password, thus advising me to urgently upgrade to version 1.5.6 to avoid disaster. Sadly, I did not take notice.
A few days after that, I received an e-mail from somebody, telling me about the same vulnerability. The only difference is that he told me he would fix the issue for $200. So I logged in to my administrator’s control panel and behold… that person changed my admin password. Luckily though, that was the only problem and I have a database back-up so I restored the original password. Right away I downloaded and applied the patch from Joomla.
Lesson learned: always check and apply new patches, especially security patches, and always listen to experts. Yeah I should have listened to Barrie in the first place… 
kengkay said
sa dami ng pumapasok na scammers, spammers at kung ano ano pang wreakers, kailangan talaga maging vigilant tayo… welcome sa WPP
myjoomla said
oo nga eh
thanks sa welcome sa WPP 
vhincent said
good thing you have a backup and didn’t loose any data …
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