Join Us At Joomla Day New York City Dec 4-5th
Joomla Showroom is excited to announce our sponsorship and speaking engagement of the Joomla Day in New York City on Dec 4-5th, 2010.
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oomla Showroom CEO Mike Carson will be a guest speaker for two training sessions and joining a full cast of Joomla rockstar presenters.
A long-time training expert in vertical markets, Mike Carson is the CEO of Integrated Technology and Design Inc, and the well-known online storefront JoomlaShowroom.com His firm created and produced the first Learning Management System (LMS) for Joomla, called JoomLearn LMS, to serve his primary market of corporate education-driven solutions.
A Joomla! designer and developer since its inception, Mike Carson's service line has expanded to include some of the most sought-after Joomla! extensions online today, including Event Registration Pro, Joomlearn LMS, and JS Testimonials. Mike's unique entrepreneurial experience, combined with his uncanny ability to listen to the market and deliver winning solutions on a consistent basis make him a "must-attend" session for business people and developers alike.Joomla Security Basics 101
Like the homey Bob Marley said "Collective security for surety". The "how secure is Joomla?" question is about as common as ASL was in those dumbass AOL chat channels.
Put it this way, it was, and still is, developed by a group of humans, and since humans are animals, most likely there are probably still a few lines of animalistic code in there. That's just about how it is for every piece of software developed by humans.
So until we get to the point of outsourcing aliens, what should you do about Joomla security?
- Register in the Joomla Community Forum at http://forum.joomla.org
- Subscribe to the Security Announcements forum http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/board,372.0.html
- Subscribe to the "Security" sections for your corresponding Joomla version: Security for Joomla 1.0 (http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/board,267.0.html) , and Security for Joomla 1.5 (http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/board,432.0.html )
- Set your forum profile to receive notifications with new posts are made to these forums (http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,192791.0.html)
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We know how much you hate reading so lets cut it short for now. In a later piece we will provide more general tips with regards to extensions/add-ons. Don't take this whole security thing lightly homes. Next thing you know someone has an amateur pr0n clip on your front page, and you're sitting back like a idoit wondering how and why.
When the cat's away, the mice will play...
Joomla 1.5.7 Security Release
Sunday, 07 September 2008
The Joomla Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.7 [Wovusani]. This is a security release and contains a number of bug fixes, improvements as well as security fixes. It is strongly recommended that users immediately upgrade. It has been nearly four weeks since Joomla 1.5.6 was released on August 12, 2008. The Development Working Group's goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community.
For more information, see http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5212-joomla-157-security-release-now-available.html and http://developer.joomla.org/security.html
Fed up with Joomla! - A user's point of view
I got an email the other day from one of our customers that i would like to share with all of you. The more I thought about how I was going to answer this question I could see two completely different points of view to why this Joomla user was so fed up. But then again, I didn't know the entire story either so I had to do my part to bring up a few good points about why Joomla is not all that bad. I found this email very interesting and the more I thought about it the more I wanted to share it with everyone that is using Joomla for their website and primary means of doing business.
Please read on...
iDevaffiliate Security Update Patch
Many commercial venture websites are usign affiliate programs to encourage others to link to their website to gain referrals. This is also very true in the JoomlaSphere. In fact there are many Joomla related websites using an affiliate software to help them track referrals and pay the affiliates.
One such affiliate software program is called iDevaffiliate. This software is a very widely use program by many businesses. In fact we use iDevaffiliate for our own affiliate software on Joomla Showroom.
Keep reading to find out what was recently discovered.
Joomla! 1.5.6 Released
The Joomla! community is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla! 1.5.6 [Vusani]. This is a quick turnaround security release to address a high level security issue and it is recommended all users upgrade immediately.
For more information about this exploit, click here to visit the Joomla Security Blog.
Joomla Showroom HIGHLY recommends that you upgrade your Joomla 1.5 website to this latest version. There have been a lot of sites hacked recently that have spawned this new release. UPDATE YOUR SITE ASAP!!!
Why do I need a tune up? Isn't Joomla Secure?
The question often comes up "WHY" do you need a security Tune UP? Isn't Joomla Secure?
One of the most overlooked and ignored areas of a Joomla website is the topic of how secure is the website?
Will it get hacked? Can it get hacked? What would I do if my site ends up HACKED?
Yet another reason to choose Registration Pro
We just seen this posted on milworm.com
This is yet another reason to choose Registration Pro and not an inferior product.
Joomla! 1.5.4 Released
The Joomla! community is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla! 1.5.4 [Naiki].