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Mfundo Sithole

Great 3rd party security extension

Hi All,   My site has been recently hack while it had the latest updates of 1.5.23.. I have been going through a list of security extension…

Started by Mfundo Sithole

4 Jun 30, 2011
Reply by Alan Smith
Andrew J Holden

Gawker Hack - *and* - Deviant Art and McDonalds - There is Safety in Open-Source

Hi Folks,   I'm imagine that everyone is now too-familiar with Gawker hack... But just in case, please note that both DeviantArt (email mar…

Started by Andrew J Holden

4 Dec 21, 2010
Reply by Andrew J Holden
Alex Andreae

Tracking Extension Vulnerabilities

In the original post that started this group, it was mentioned how not everyone knows where to look for extension vulnerabilities, end user…

Started by Alex Andreae

51 Feb 3, 2010
Reply by Marcos Peebles
Tom Fuller

Local File Inclusion Exploit - how to stop

Thanks for this great site - just discovered it - after receiving reports that my component com_biblestudy had been listed as vulnerable to…

Started by Tom Fuller

20 Jan 8, 2010
Reply by Tom Fuller
Martin Rasser

Exploits through misinterpreted UTF-8/16 characters

Hello! This might be all nonsense, but following exploit came to my mind recently and I want to know what you people think about it. You…

Started by Martin Rasser

1 Dec 26, 2009
Reply by Uwe Walter
Alex Andreae

Version Verification Tool

A while back, we were working on a Joomla site that was at 1.5.8 and we were tasked with upgrading it to 1.5.11 (current at the time). Not…

Started by Alex Andreae

2 Oct 21, 2009
Reply by Mark W. Bender
Alex Andreae

Welcome - Intentions for the "Security" group

Let's get the obvious out of the way first: Security's always a major concern with any CMS or Internet application. However, there's a whol…

Started by Alex Andreae

0 Oct 19, 2009
Amy Stephen

Security Group

This group is for the discussion on how we can improve the security of extensions. Thanks to Alex Andreae for heading up these discussions…

Started by Amy Stephen

0 Oct 19, 2009

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