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We have noticed that there has been an increase in the number of websites exploited over the last few weeks, not only websites hosted by Kiwihosting.net, but in many of the hosting forums we follow there has been a large number of other hosting companies also reporting such increases. The following article explains a little more about the current exploit that's been reported most frequently and what you can do to help protect yourself against it.
Whilst at Kiwihosting.net we do everything possible to help protect our servers against exploits the vast majority of sites exploited that we investigate are as a result of
1) Customers running 3rd party software such as Joomla, PHPBB, vBulletin etc and not keeping up to date with new releases
2) Customers having FTP passwords that are weak and easily guessed or bruteforce compromised
3) Customer computers infected with malware/keyloggers or trojans.
For those customers who have not yet moved their sites to our HELM servers we highly encourage you to consider doing so, we run additional software on these servers that helps us to dramatically reduce the attack vectors on the server by blocking any suspicious request or URL received.
We recommend all customers consider running software such as Malwarebytes, and AVAST Anti-virus to help protect your own computers against such intrusions.
http://malwarebytes.org/
http://www.avast.com/
For the full article please refer to our support forum
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