The other day, I got an email from a reader about a problem with content in Joomla articles (more about that in another post). In the email, he mentioned he was using Joomla 1.5.20 (at the moment, 1.5.25 is the current version).
So, the first thing I told him was to upgrade his Joomla site to the latest version. At first, he hestitated. It's too hard! But after a few words of caution, he came around and changed his mind. And I think you should, too.
Before Christmas, I experienced the nightmare of all webmasters. A hard disk on one of my servers went bad and I was unable to mount it.
- Oh well, I thought, that's not a big problem. I have a nightly backup.
When I called the hosting company - I was confident I had a couple of hours worth of work ahead of me. Boy, was I in for a shock...
This is an important and urgent security advisory from CB Team: Upgrade all your Community Builder 1.0 and 1.1 installations to CB 1.2.1 as soon as possible.
They received a private report yesterday from a Joomlapolitan about a critical vulnerability of CB 1.1, that they could now reproduce and confirm.
I have written a post earlier about why you should keep your Joomla sites updated for safety reasons.
Phil Taylor published this Tweet today:
A lot of people getting old versions of #joomla 1.5 hacked today - been fixing sites all day for customers...
UPGRADE NOW to #Joomla (latest version)
I couldn't say it better myself. It's crucial that you upgrade to the latest version of Joomla.
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