In Joomla, it is very easy to access the administrator area by simply hitting {base_URL/administrator}.
The protection of your Joomla site can be greatly improved by restricting access to your administrator area. The most popular way to achieve is to customize your Admin Login page URL by using your admin login URL with the key. It is very much easy to customize the admin login page URL by using our Web Security plugin.
– Don’t leave default administrator account as “admin” and bad password; this is probably the biggest risk in Joomla. By keeping default “admin” and guessable password, you are helping hackers in their job.
Solution:
You can customize your Admin Login Page URL by using your admin login URL with the key which is not easily guessable. This means whenever you need to access the admin login page you need to enter the secret key after administrator.
Also, you can use our one of the feature Use Strong Password to generate long, complex passwords.
If you don’t use this key, then you will be redirected to the following page.
Home page.
You can show the custom error message to the hacker.
You can also use a custom redirect URL where you want to redirect him/her.