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
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, Read more
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 Read more