Awesome Find #18: Tools To Lock Down PHP Websites

Posted: Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 6:00 pm
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PHP websites are extremely common these days. This is primarily because the technology is free and there is a huge community to support it.

Unfortunately, this also makes it a common target of hackers! But, the open source community comes to our rescue with a number of tools to help you lock down your PHP based (e.g. Wordpress, Joomla, etc. ) websites.

From the website:

Don’t wait for Google to ban your site to find out you’ve been hacked. You might use several tools to prevent your site from being hacked, but if they fail, you want to know right away - long before Google bans your site for hidden links and malicious scripts. That’s what MonitorHackdFiles does - it is a sentry for your site. It watches your site, and when it detects a file has changed (or been added), it notifies you via email and tells you which file(s) was changed. When other security measures fail, MonitorHackdFiles makes sure you know about it.

Head over to WebChicklet and lock down your website today!