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…
Every time your Joomla website loads, the template kicks into gear to deliver the desired experience. Given this central role, Joomla template security is one of the key steps to preventing unauthorized access to your web server or the insertion of spam or graffiti on your site. The following tips 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…
Most experts recommend protecting live websites with a Joomla security extension. Produced by one of the most influential Joomla developers, Admin Tools provides a suite of tools that help keep your website safe and running smoothly. Website security is a broad topic and sometimes complicated topic. Admin Tools makes site security much Read more…
Balancing the access to and security of online resources is a critical feature of any successful web development agency. However, many agencies struggle to make and enforce security policies that protect their own resources and that of third-party clients. Both individual and group-based password managers have significantly enhanced web server Read more…
Today we are excited to share a small but useful feature for your Joomla dashboard — improved support for Cloudflare. The new feature dramatically reduces the number of Watchful-generated false-positive alerts that the IP Address of your Cloudflare-enhanced website(s) server has changed. By whitelisting Cloudflare IP Addresses, Watchers can now Read more…
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 Read more…