Hi,
Can someone advise how moodle protects students passwords, personal information from Trojan Horses, Keystroke recording programs et al.
Does it not use https protocol.
ANy advice would be appreciated.
Best wishes
John
There is an option to use https for logins, but using it means that if SSL is not properly configured, you might lock yourself out of your Moodle (if it's not on your server). In the Moodle database the passwords are encoded with a one-way algorhitm and can only be hacked by brute-force methods (if the database has been "hacked and stolen" first).
There is not much Moodle itself can do about keystoke recording programs and trojan horses. They might spread though the files uploaded to a Moodle site, but this can be prevented by having anti-virus protection in the client machine. Also there is an option to set that Moodle virus-checks uploaded files (with ClamAV).
There is not much Moodle itself can do about keystoke recording programs and trojan horses. They might spread though the files uploaded to a Moodle site, but this can be prevented by having anti-virus protection in the client machine. Also there is an option to set that Moodle virus-checks uploaded files (with ClamAV).