Anti-exploit system

In today's internet, one out of four pages is based on Wordpress. The second most popular content managment system is Joomla. The last place on the podium in terms of popularity is occupied by Drupal. Other free and widely used internet application are: phpBB that allows maintaining a discussion forum and a mailing webpanel RoundCube.Their popularity is due to the huge base of add-ons and modules, provided by the community of internet users. Unfortunately, you can easily overlook the other side of the coin, which is linked to the security of our websites.

On Smarthost.au servers we have implemented the system which looks for suspicious pieces of a code in popular php-scripts as well as in theirs plug-ins and add-ons. It works on database with over 4000 exploits for Joomla, WordPress, Drupal and other web applications written in PHP.

The scan detects every unauthorized changes in user files. The system is based on constant monitoring of all files at the hosting account. If any file is being changed, it is immediately scanned. The system is able to detect an upload of a virus file via ftp protocol. It can prevent the attack conducted with stolen credentials.

The infected file will be flagged as security breach, even with a valid access data. Another invaluable asset of the anti-exploit system is the detection of undesirable code hidden in files uploaded by webforms. Simply, it is impossible to upload a .jpg file that contains php code with exploit.

In addition, the script will detect any modification of the files which are trying to attach the encoded eval() code ...

The Smarthost.au servers are regularly updated with commercial solutions, whose aim is to care about the safety of your data.