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Hi there

First of all i will to express how happy i am with the RC5 of the CF. ANyways i have question about security.

How can i assure that the data that will be submitting on my form will be secure and safe from a third party?

Cheers

Hi Tomzey,

Fundamental rule of the internet is that you can't be absolutely certain. So do not store any confidential information in files or tables that are accessible to the internet (especially true of credit card or similar data).

That said, keep your Joomla installation up to date (current release is 1.5.10) make sure that you only use robust Joomla extensions. Use Joomla code to access the database (probably the biggest security gap is allowing form or url input direct acess to the database by not checking and validating the results). That's why you will see us here using 'Joomla code' to handle form data.

Keep your passwords protected and secure. That means long random passwords like eN8ZL3qNaE; don't use Admin as the admin user name for your site; be very careful who you give SuperAdmin or Admin access too.

That's all standard stuff but easy to overlook.

Bob

Hi Tomzey,

if you are saving the data to database then the database must be very secured, the data can be revealed using some hacking methods, if this is a very sensitive users data then I suggest that you don't save it or email it!

Cheers
Max