Protect my Members!

Discussion in 'Security' started by chrissatchwell, Dec 9, 2006.

  1. #1
    Hi all,

    My site dropshiphelp.co.uk is growing nicely and now has over 550 members. The membership system is just run on a really simple script. Here is the sign-up page:

    http://dropshiphelp.co.uk/registeraccount.php

    The information is just inserted straight into the MySQl database. I want to protect the site as much as I can but don't think it has any security at all at the moment!

    Anyone know how I can protect the whole members area? I thought about pages like the login page being https:// but how much does this cost, and how can you do it?

    Any other measures I can take? Thanks.
     
    chrissatchwell, Dec 9, 2006 IP
  2. saadahmed007

    saadahmed007 Admínistratör

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    Make sure your members login details are md5 encrypted in database so suppose if someone hacks database he wont be able to read passwords etc for https you need ssl cerificate..
    Saad
     
    saadahmed007, Dec 9, 2006 IP
  3. chrissatchwell

    chrissatchwell Peon

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    Thanks, do you know how I check if the login details are 'md5 encrypted'?
     
    chrissatchwell, Dec 9, 2006 IP
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    Check your mysql then members table and if you can see passwords like this killme then it's not encrypted if it's like 1f3870be274f6c49b3e31a0c6728957f then it's encrypted..If it's not encrypted then you will have to modify your script take a look on it http://us3.php.net/md5
    Thanks,
    Saad
     
    saadahmed007, Dec 9, 2006 IP
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    khin007 Banned

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    I think registerfly offers SSL certificates for less than $10 /year
     
    khin007, Dec 9, 2006 IP
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    MD5 may be cracked now if length < 7 chars. My recommend is MD5+base64
    Password=MD5(Base64_encode('REAL_PASSWORD'))
    It is very strong
     
    thuonghieu, Dec 12, 2006 IP