title: Drupal 7 security implementation
body: <p>I have a hostgator website on which I installed Drupal. It was working fine until last weekend. I am primarily a .net developer and am not sure about the configuration of this open source application.</p>
  
  <p>Recently, I noticed a large number of user accounts being created who never even logged in before. So, after setting up Google analytics, I determined that my site was hacked. I made this determination because the majority of the traffic and user flow is coming form RUSSIA, SERBIA and ROMANIA, hackers haven!</p>
  
  <p>I realised that my website was not secure. So now I put the site into mainitainance mode, uninstalled the existing Drupal 7, and installed a new installation. It is very fresh now and I am on a mission to find some good security pratices.</p>
  
  <p>I would like to know what security measures that I can implement other than <a href="http://drupal.org/security/secure-configuration" rel="nofollow">these</a>.</p>
  
  <p>Also, how would I connect to my website's command line to change the file permission settings? Currently, I am using Filezilla and right clicking to change the properties.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks, and apologies for the long question.</p>
  
  <p>P.S.  This is my <a href="http://techiequickie.com" rel="nofollow">website</a>.</p>