building block of any web agency is the trust bestowed upon it by the client. A client trusts your agency to deliver secure websites and online services, but it goes far beyond that: most clients automatically assume that your web agency security is also top-notch. After-all, the client is trusting Read more
Last week, I interviewed Vic Drover, Watchful’s co-founder. This introduction to Watchful was part of an online Joomla user group, hosted by Joomlashack. Vic talked about the background of Watchful and went over many of the key features. If you’re new to Watchful, or curious about how it can benefit Read more
The Joomlashack Conference was a three day online event that took place in early November. This was a free conference featuring the best speakers from around the Joomla world. Plus, somehow, Vic Drover, the CEO of Watchful, was invited too 🙂 As one of the bigger companies in Joomla, Watchful Read more
Running a WordPress agency means that you spend a lot of time maintaining sites and updating plugins. Watchful can help reduce your WordPress maintenance costs so your agency can be more profitable. Good maintenance mean happy customers We all have people helping us with maintenance. Wherever you live, people will Read more
For many years, Watchful has been able to handle private sites protected by basic authentication (also known as htpasswd) by simply incorporating the basic authentication credentials into the site and administrator URL fields. This method involved adding the username and password directly to the URL, like this: user:password @ domain.com Read more
We have recently released new versions of our Joomla Client (v1.12.2), WordPress Client (v1.0.2) & the SSO Plugin for Joomla (v1.3). New Joomla & WordPress Clients The updated Joomla and WordPress clients improve the way we authenticate calls from the Watchful server so as to avoid a theoretical timing attack: http://php.net/manual/en/function.hash-hmac.php#111435). Read more
This week the Joomla project released an important update for its 3.6 series: Joomla 3.6.4. Since this version included a patch for an important security issue, Joomla published an announcement a few days prior stating the exact release date and time to help users prepare and plan for the update. Read more
Website developers and owners must remain vigilant to the emerging threats in Joomla and its ecosystem of extensions and templates. Use the Joomla security resources below to learn the best methods of building and maintaining safer websites. 1. Joomla security checklist The Joomla Security Checklist is the perfect place to start when 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