Thanks Chris. I was refereeing more to the actual server, than Joomla
itself.
Scott Wolpow
On 12/13/2010 10:20 AM, Chris French wrote:
Mitch is right,
If you are interested in security you can help yourself 1000 fold if
you just read a little bit about security and the web with joomla
specifically your worst nightmare is bad file permissions, if your
setting anything to chmod 777, You are setting yourself for trouble.
Second you need to update joomla as soon as a new patch comes out the
same goes for your components as well.
You should also check this out
http://sectools.org/web-scanners.html
I haven't used most of them but they could help you.
Chris
On Dec 13, 2010, at 7:27 AM, Mitch Pirtle wrote:
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Scott Wolpow <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Does any one know of a good service to scan a server for security
issues,
besides Joomla centric?
You're best off doing some scanning on your own, if only to be
slightly edumucated on such practices. There are great free tools out
there too:
nmap - http://nmap.org/
nessus - http://www.nessus.org/nessus/intro.php
I've had access to five- and six-figure security assessment platforms
and toolkits and can say emphatically that these two, combined with a
bit of reading on your part, are just as effective.
-- Mitch, teaching how to fish :-)
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