RSJoomla! Blog - RSFirewall!

As we assumed, the Joomla! Day Netherlands, 2010 turned out to be a great event. Thanks to the organizers that invited us to speak at the event and to the friendly Dutch community that we have met during the event.

In case you didn't have the chance to watch it live on Joomla! Day Netherlands, we have made the presentation available for download in a .pdf format.

Today we've released RSFirewall! Revision 9, which contains a new feature: it cleans the backdoored versions of Jumi from your website. You can read the changelog here.

Jumi is a very popular Joomla! component, some of our customers being already affected by this backdoor - so we added this security measure as an extra protection layer to keep our customers' websites safe.

As usual, we advise you to run the System Check and follow the on-screen instructions to obtain a better security rating on your website, keep passwords safe and always be up to date with the latest software versions and the latest threats.

Hackers, take overs, denials of service.. what a mess!

We launched RSFirewall! to secure Joomla! websites and it is doing a great job. We received a lot of feedbacks from happy customers that no longer have intrusion problems which makes us happy.

However, to those who got their Joomla! hacked, here's a small guide on what to do next:

How to repair a hacked Joomla! website:

• Get RSFirewall!

• Scan the website with the RSFirewall! security scanner for Joomla!. If the website was hacked, it will look for missing or modified Joomla! files, known Joomla! malware scripts, SQL injections and other vulnerabilities.

Since the first part of the article "10 security mistakes to avoid in Joomla!" was a real success, we are really excited about writing another set of mistakes commonly found on customer Joomla! websites .

In the first part we wrote about the importance of updating to the latest version of Joomla!, about files permissions, folders permissions, file uploads and keeping the public folder clean.