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#24108 MUA Shield

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Latest post by TIAB on Wednesday, 06 January 2016 04:27 CST

Wednesday, 06 January 2016 04:15 CST

TIAB

In the last few weeks there has (and continues) to be several MUA Shield alerts - around 2 or 3 a day on each site. Is there a currently known issue or new hacking activity? Is there any other info apart from IP address that could give clues as to what attempts the MUA Shield has blocked?

It's good to know your tools are keeping things under control but just a little concerning! Keep up the good works.

Wednesday, 06 January 2016 04:22 CST

nicholas

This is to be expected. If you recall, two weeks ago there was a major, zero-day security issue in Joomla! that prompted the release of Joomla! 3.4.6. The attack vector was the User Agent string. Ever since there is a massive amount of nefarious blokes who blindly attempt to attack Joomla! sites using malicious user agent strings. Admin Tools detects them and blocks them. That's what MUAShield is all about, after all: Shielding you from Malicious User Agent strings ;)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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Wednesday, 06 January 2016 04:27 CST

TIAB

Thanks Nicholas. Again..(echo!) It's good to know your tools are keeping things under control. :-)

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