[Klug-general] Website woes

[Dan Attwood]

Unfortunately it seems that last Tuesday the Klug website was hacked. All
kinds of nasty things were done to our index file. As a result the site has
been taken offline. a place holder has been dropped in at
kent.lug.org.uk/klug

i am currently talking the lug admins (who host the site for us) to look at
how we can go about restoring the site to a prehacked state and then taking
some additional security measures.

For peoples interest the site runs/ ran Joomla and the attack seems to have
been the result of poor file permisioning by myself, register globals set to
ON on the the server and perhaps an out of date component.

We hope to get the site up and running soon as was. Failing that we might
start to look at a different CMS. However if possible Colin and myself are
keen to keep using Joomla as it provides a number of great features with
very little difficulty.

Dan
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