The news area at Watchful focuses on updates to the platform, new features, and company announcements.
Updates for Cory Webb Media and its new suite of extensions are now available. Designed to address Joomla integrators’ pain points, these extensions prioritize speed and simplicity, offering a seamless user experience. By streamlining and optimizing various aspects of Joomla, Cory Webb’s extension suite offers a range of powerful solutions. Read more…
One of the most popular extensions for Joomla is AcyMailing – the ever-popular newsletter and email marketing extension. Support for AcyMailing has been a frequent request from our clients but progress has been complicated by the fact that updates are distributed on a per-domain basis and must be verified at Read more…
On 21 December 2015, the Joomla project announced a new security vulnerability affecting all current versions of Joomla 1.5 through 3.4.6. This vulnerability builds on a similar security issue patched one week ago and we recommend that all Joomla websites update immediately. Updating Joomla 3 sites We strongly advise you to update Read more…
UPDATE, 21-Dec-2015: Please review this updated security announcement. On 14 December 2015, the Joomla project announced a new security vulnerability affecting all current versions of Joomla 1.5 through 3.4.5. This vulnerability has been detected in the wild, has been fully documented publicly, and remains an active threat to the security and Read more…
Customer satisfaction has always been a top priority at Watchful. From our launch, we have relied on a mix of public documentation, self-hosted help desk software, internal workflows and personal communication by email, phone or instant message. While effective, these tools hindered objective customer satisfaction measurement and was unnecessarily complicated Read more…
On 16 October 2015, the Joomla project announced that three security vulnerabilities had been identified in Joomla 3. Together, the vulnerabilities affect all versions of Joomla between v3.0 and v3.4.4 inclusively. On 22 October 2015, the Joomla project released Joomla 3.4.5 which patches these issues. Just 90 minutes after this release, third-party Read more…
Today is Watchful’s three year anniversary of enhancing Joomla website security with centralized updates, backups, and improved management. To celebrate, we are launching our new auditing tool that performs deep scans of your website and file system. The audit not only detects deviations from Joomla best-practices, but also hacked core files, Read more…
We are excited to finally announce the public release of our latest tool for Joomla — the website audit! We internally tested the audit tool for months, as well as privately releasing it to our beta testers 4 weeks ago. On Monday we silently released it to the public in Read more…
Today we are excited to announce that the Single Sign-on plugin for Joomla has left the beta-testing phase and is now available for all our users. Our dedicated team achieved this significant milestone after conducting nearly two months of rigorous internal testing. We are also immensely grateful to our amazing Read more…
Watchful has introduced an immensely popular feature that empowers its users to associate custom tags with websites in their personalized dashboard. These tags excel in quickly filtering sites by criteria like staff, service plan, and software version, adding to their appeal. Today, we eagerly announce a significant enhancement to the Read more…