This "online demo" site hacked !

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This "online demo" site hacked !

Post by victune » Sun Apr 09, 2006 10:48 pm

Admins check it out !

The "Online Demo" site hacked.

http://demo.joomla.org/

:o

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Re: This "online demo" site hacked !

Post by brad » Sun Apr 09, 2006 11:11 pm

I will refresh the demo site now...
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Re: This "online demo" site hacked !

Post by tayhow » Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:46 am

If this was just someone logging in as the open admin / admin account and changing things, why not delete these posts as it's misleading? 

People react badly to the word 'Hacked'.

No offence to original poster.
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Re: This "online demo" site hacked !

Post by William_Syd » Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:24 am

Was the demo site messed up again today?

:-[ Oh.. I should have searched more. I see this happens all the time.
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Re: This "online demo" site hacked !

Post by shen brood » Mon Jun 12, 2006 1:55 pm

Should the plain Joomla Template be the one shown in the "demo site" ... well this is the first time I actually looked at it.  Was it really ahcked?  :o  :(  ???

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Re: This "online demo" site hacked !

Post by stingrey » Mon Jun 12, 2006 2:01 pm

The online demo site cant actually be hacked as it is properly secured.

What is happening is that as people test the features they modifiy things and this can affect the layout of the site.  They can even set the otehr included core template as the default. 

The only changes that can be made to the demo site are to the database. 
And every 60 mins the database is emptied and restored.


So in short the site was NOT hacked
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Re: This "online demo" site hacked !

Post by shen brood » Mon Jun 12, 2006 5:32 pm

Ahh I see.  Now I know where to test certain features :D Thanks!


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