Cpanel Users - You need to take care of That Digital Junk...
If you have Cpanel at your hosting..you are lucky
I mean how easy it is to just do few clicks and Wordpress is installed,
same case is with, Joomla, PhpBB, OSticket, Zen Cart and so much stuff...
As this is so easy to install... Myself included , I have seen many people
do many test installs on the server like Joomla 1.5 in a sub-folder of test purpose,
and phpbb forum at another sub-folder and simpleMachineForum forum at another....
Objective was just to test the things, to pick and choose b/w different scripts...
It was great until this week...a BIG danger-hole was discovered....
You know the scripts we installed, and never used are not going to upgrade
automatically...so they are there unattended!
Big target for hacking...this is what happened with a server of our client, they were hacked through the old Zen cart install at their server which he did years ago just to
test !!!
So this is a reminder that you please make sure their is no unattended install of any
script at your server which is not updated to current version which can give a backdoor
to hackers to hack your website.
It is very simple to check what you have installed at your server thought Cpanel so far..
and from the list check what is outdated and not needed anymore...simply uninstall that..
to check the list of current Cpanel fantastico installs list:
Go to your Cpanel > Fantastico > in the right-sidebar-bottom is a link : " Installations overview" . Click that and you will be presented with a whole list of installations...
Now please set aside some time today or tomorrow and delete all the unused stuff,
yeah clear the old unused digital junk from your server for another step forward
regarding better security.
Best Regards,
Mohsin
PS. Also do not forget to take your Files and Databases backup on daily/weekly basis
depending the nature of the website.
Really It was not great to know that whole site has been damaged screwing the all
marketing and SEO efforts ... Do you care your business? Then please take some time
and set a schedule for backup and follow that religiously.
"May I have ten thousand marbles, please?"
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