A few news in the WordPress world: first of all, WordPress 2.5.1 was released, a security release that solves a few problems found in the WP security.
Matt Mullenweg has made 2 important announcements regarding WordPress.com:
A new feature will be introduced in WordPress.com, a plugin that will display the related posts, searching them in your blog […]
Yesterday BlogSecurity announced a security vulnerability about WordPress 2.5, posted on SecurityFocus, read the article: WordPress 2.5 Secret_Key Vulnerability. This security pitfall only involves a few WordPress configurations, but if you’re in those cases, then it’s better to apply the proposed solution.
Talking about security, BlogSecurity updated their great WordPress Whitepaper, a PDF that teaches how […]
Last Wednesday the Drupal team has released version 6.2 of their great CMS.
It’s a bug-fix and security release! So, be sure to upgrade your 6.0 and 6.1 installs
Tags: Drupal, Security
A new update of the Joomla! 1.0 branch has been released: Joomla! 1.0.14.
It fixes a number of security issues, so it’s a good idea to upgrade.
You can find the istructions at the URL http://docs.joomla.org/Upgrade_Instructions
Tags: CMS, Joomla, Security
The Joomla! Development Team has released Joomla! 1.5.1, the new release that corrects a security hole in the XML-RPC protocol, and some other small bugs. Download it now!
Tags: Joomla, Joomla-1.5, Security, XML-RPC
The Joomla! Team has reported a security hole in Joomla! 1.5.0, caused by the same XML-RPC protocol security problem that has been solved in Wordpress by the new release, WP 2.3.3.
The problem regards every Joomla! site that uses the Blogger API XML-RPC plugin, disabled by default.
While waiting for Joomla! 1.5.1, those worried by this high […]
If you lost your Joomla admin password and you have direct access to the database, or via PhpMyAdmin, you can enter the following SQL sentences:
INSERT INTO `jos_users` VALUES (62, ‘Administrator’, ‘admin’, ‘your-email@email.com’, ‘21232f297a57a5a743894a0e4a801fc3′, ‘Super Administrator’, 0, 1, 25, ‘2005-09-28 00:00:00′, ‘2005-09-28 00:00:00′, ”, ”);
INSERT INTO `jos_core_acl_aro` VALUES (10,’users’,’62′,0,’Administrator’,0);
INSERT INTO `jos_core_acl_groups_aro_map` VALUES (25,”,10);
If this causes an […]
Joomla is enough secure to be run across many servers on the internet, but securing it to the limit can be quite challenging.
It’s a CMS used by many people so whenever a security hole is found, it’s corrected by the Joomla team and a patch is released, so it’s important to keep your Joomla website […]
During the Joomla installation, in the first page of the setup, the installation script checks the server setup. In many server setups you could find the line “Register Globals” set to ON, and evidenced in red like it’s an error.
This error does not prevent you from installing Joomla, in fact it’s more a warning than […]
