Recently we received notice from the Joomla security team of a possible vulnerability in our Watchful Client. Specifically: “Extension is not preventing execution of files outside of the framework (JEXEC not properly implemented) and therefore enabling potential unwanted information disclosure and various other attacks” To be clear, this analysis is not accurate. …
After months of internal development and weeks of beta testing, the new Watchful Dashboard, complete with Improved UI with Universal Analytics and Gravatar integration, is now available for all users. The new Dashboard was developed to address feedback from a number of Watchers who wanted more of the interface dedicated …
The last time we opened the doors of the Watchful labs, we gave you a preview of some upcoming features. In fact, we will be releasing the new dashboard we introduced that day to our beta testers next week. Our latest creation is not designed to save you time, but …
We are excited to share the wonderful news that our advanced uptime monitoring launches, which were initially developed in the Watchful labs, have successfully graduated and are now available for all Watchers. With great improvements and enhancements, the new monitoring system is a significant upgrade from its predecessors. Previously, we …
2-factor authentication is a new feature at Watchful that adds an extra layer of security when logging into your website. We’ve written a full tutorial on the subject in our knowledge base, but you can also refer to the quick-start image below. Please be sure to install the Authy or Google …
Since we first opened our doors, one of the characteristic features of our service has been the colorful icons on the Watchful Dashboard that indicates whether or not Joomla updates are pending for your websites. Every Joomla user’s goal is keeping their websites in the “green zone”. Red light. Green light. The …
As many of you have likely heard, an incredibly serious and widespread security vulnerability, Heartbleed, was recently reported in OpenSSL, an important cryptographic software library used on many servers. OpenSSL is used to secure large swaths of internet communications and thus the Heartbleed weakness allows attackers to eavesdrop on communications, …
Here at Watchful, our Chief technology Officer and co-founder Pierre-André Vullioud always has something cooking in the laboratory. New developments undergo rigorous research, development, and internal testing on our staging server after initial work on the dev server. Once we have a stable feature, we transfer updates to the production …
Today marks a very exciting achievement for the crew here at Watchful as we announce the immediate availability of remote, 1-click updates for the following commercial plugins for the wildly popular JCE content editor for Joomla: Not only does this feature address the most common feature request at Watchful, it marks a …
On Friday, the developer of the popular Breezing Forms add-on for Joomla announced a serious vulnerability affecting version 1.7.5 (build 762) and earlier. Based on our research, we expect that about 1 in every 20 Joomla websites is affected by this vulnerability. This is the second serious extension vulnerability reported for Joomla in …