<em>@jwellman 86190 wrote:</em><blockquote>I’m so confused. :confused: I guess I’m not keeping up with the forum well enough. 😀 So what you are saying is when I leave a live URL on Joomlart it increases the risk for being hacked?</blockquote>
My intention is not to scare or confuse you or anyone here. But, when you are in a forum like this, if if is Joomlart.com or any other forum, people become soooo negligent that they either post all their information right away…I mean all, I have seen people post their banking account information as it was part of the question. This was also in a Joomla Forum. What do you think hackers do, there are the ones that are serious criminals and only hack sites that are useful for stealing credit card information, banking account information in the combination with the names and adresses of the people. Than there are the ones that are serious idealists and hack whatever is against their way of living, may it be capitalistic sites like shops etc., or social networking sites that make too much profit from adsense in their sights and the ones that simply hack for fun and let it look like an idealists work.
Nevertheless, where do you think do they find urls, on google? No, it is much easier to simply join a forum, to even sign up and pay for memberships or to even hack their ways into a forum like this and all those components like Fireboard, VBulletin are know to be vunerabil to such intrusions. When in, they pick out the ones to be hacked as a lot are showing their urls right away, others are asked for theirs, again others post them negligently and mostly it is just simple unawareness of that is happening anyday, in nearly every forum, especially such link farm like the Joomlart.com or any other Joomla, Drupal, Mambo, whatever forum, one sees messages that members mention their sites have been hacked and when looking at their posts, they posted their urls beforewards. AND, the excuse that this is coincidence is truly untrue, as where else people post their urls, I think a lot of the Joomlart.com users are not posting their urls anywhere too. Some may do it anywhere, but most only when people ask and then it starts. Same with any other forum that has users that are loyal ones. To hack forum members sites comes with the nice fun to later see how the people react, like TV or so…
Again nevetheless, it is simply **** unimportant why hackers hack, with what intention in the first run, they just do and they are much emotional in picking out whom they hack the site. Either the one is playing big shot in the forum, teaching them kind of a lesson, are people with high intentions and always polite for being too conform, a joke etc., let it be because the one is a woman and to show their sickest kind of love, like I throw a stone against you because I fell in love with you, you know the stuff maybe from school or college and the same happens in the offices, the internet and anywhere, it is whether hate, financial gain, love or senseless just doing it.;)
Like I wrote in my other reply, it is more important that one keeps away all personal information from forums when one wants to avoid any possible hack attack against one.
And also, remember my PM, I am kind of concerned about some of the users here, so stay away from some indeed!:cool:
Hope you got it now!:)
