On 9/6/06, Alan Dayley <
alandd@consultpros.com> wrote:
>
> > Alan Dayley wrote:
> > The PLUG website is down. It was hacked sometime early this morning.
> > (Joomla! and or it's addons is proving to be quite insecure.)
> >
> > I don't have time to do much with it right now. It'll have to wait till
> > tonight. Sorry about that. Please be as patient as possible.
>
> Site is back up, mostly. There are a few things to restore, like the
> banners. But, it should be hardened (thanks JD) better than before and
> has all the latest updates.
>
> Thanks for all the suggestions and encouragement!
>
> Alan
>
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> Edward Norton wrote:
>> Anytime you add a complex CMS like Joomla, etc, you have the
>> possibility
>> of security problems. The PLUG site really isn't all that expansive, >>
so what IS the problem with using HTML?
>
> We left HTML to allow members to contribute to the site. In the end, > we
have not had very many contributions from the general
> membership, for whatever reason.
I may not be [completely] keeping up, here (sorry),
but I thought that ("allow members to contribute to the site")
was what a wiki was for;
(also, an archive of the mail lists, such as this one...)
just 0.02, ...from:
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Mike Schwartz
Glendale AZ
schwartz@acm.org
Mike.L.Schwartz@gmail.com
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