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
Yesterday we were informed of a very serious security vulnerability in eXtplorer — a popular file management utility for Joomla. Unlike the recent security issues in the Joomla core, this vulnerability is in an extension. After some research, we now know that on up to 1 in every 10 Joomla websites may be Read more
The Joomla project has announced fixes for an urgent Joomla security issue affecting version 1.5 and greater. These updates follow on from a similar security announcement in the Spring. So, if you have maintained a Joomla site built within the last six or seven years, you likely have an urgent security issue to fix. Read on Read more
After returning from J and Beyond, the annual Joomla conference, we’ll officially release Watchful client version 1.5.6. One of the most exciting new features in this release is the ability to update Akeeba Backup and Admin Tools — both the Free and Pro versions — right from the Watchful dashboard. If Read more
What Joomla upgrade is right for me? Last week saw a flurry of activity as the Joomla project released the much anticipated Joomla 3.1 with system-wide tags on Wednesday as well as security updates for both Joomla 3.0 and 2.5. Some technical complications saw two more releases late on Friday. Read more