Important:Basics For Non-Experts This tutorial is written for those who create hobbyist websites, but aren't web security experts, and want simple tips to protect themselves from hacks. Why Protect your Server? SoR was hacked early 2009. Cleaning out the hack, figuring out why it happened, and hardening the SoR server to keep it from happening again wasted a full week of labor. It exposed visitors of my site to spam redirects and a trojan virus. It also potentially opened me up to full site deletion, password theft, database corruption, being blocked by search engines for malware distribution, and a host of more bad-ness I don't want to clue hackers into. I can never be 100% sure, but evidence leads to my server control panel that had a known security hole. From there, the hacker gained ftp access to my site, and then ran a whole list of bad scripts. Was it my fault? Well, there was a whole host of things I *should* have done since day one to harden my server th...
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