Status of the Content Management Section of the weizzar.com website
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Benyamin Sheppard
Jan 11, 2008, 6:00:35 PM1/11/08
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Dear fellow weizzars,
Please accept my apology for not tending to this sooner... Your site was hacked a few months ago and I had to take down the portion that was hacked. The reason it was hacked was the database driven portion of the site, called a content management system or (CMS), was built on a very old product called MAMBO. Over the years MAMBO has evolved into a new product called Joomla! while the original MAMBO code was being neglected, eventually leading to many security flaws.
At the time your site was hacked, I was deep into developing three other major web site projects and could not dedicate any time to getting the weizzar site back up which required the critical update of the CMS software to the new Joomla! system...
Finally in 2008, I have recovered some time and plan to upgrade to the latest version of the Joomla! CMS. The latest version of Joomla is much safer and cannot be hacked very easily. Nothing is totally hack proof however, but we will make sure that recovery from a hack is not so disastrous as before.... The new Joomla system allows for quicker upgrades and easier and faster recoveries from hacks if they occur.
Warm regards,
metta,
Ben Sheppard - Founder Director - Global ICT Systems Inc.
"Our mission is to make your mission a success!"
Please accept my apology for not tending to this sooner... Your site was hacked a few months ago and I had to take down the portion that was hacked. The reason it was hacked was the database driven portion of the site, called a content management system or (CMS), was built on a very old product called MAMBO. Over the years MAMBO has evolved into a new product called Joomla! while the original MAMBO code was being neglected, eventually leading to many security flaws.
At the time your site was hacked, I was deep into developing three other major web site projects and could not dedicate any time to getting the weizzar site back up which required the critical update of the CMS software to the new Joomla! system...
Finally in 2008, I have recovered some time and plan to upgrade to the latest version of the Joomla! CMS. The latest version of Joomla is much safer and cannot be hacked very easily. Nothing is totally hack proof however, but we will make sure that recovery from a hack is not so disastrous as before.... The new Joomla system allows for quicker upgrades and easier and faster recoveries from hacks if they occur.
Warm regards,
metta,
Ben Sheppard - Founder Director - Global ICT Systems Inc.
"Our mission is to make your mission a success!"
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