Once in a blue moon, I am summoned to work on a Joomla 1.5 website. It’s always one of those sites that’s got problems. Backend not loading. Entire site not loading. Everything looking like it was developed in Wordpad on Windows 3.1. Or, in today’s case, a user getting hundreds of mysterious e-mails about mails that couldn’t […]
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Is your mailbox currently blowing up with Admintools notifications? Then you’re not alone. We’re noticing a definite spike in attempts to abuse Joomla exploits. The exploits the “attackers” are using are for older versions of Joomla. Using Admintools or a similar tool will help you to block these malicious attempts to screw with your site.
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As we all know, upgrading your Joomla! website is an important thing to do. And with two security releases in a short time, it’s possible some of you forgot to apply all the updates. If you’re not on version 1.5.24 of Joomla you’ll see that there are no upgrade packages available for your version of
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Is there a better way to start the week than with a nasty Joomla! error? Don’t answer that question, it was rhetorical. I started this week by doing some maintenance of our own sites, when I was greeted by the following Joomla! error: Jtablesession:: store failed. This error is a serious one, as it’ll prevent
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This is one of those tips which you might never need in your entire life, but I’ll share it anyway. But first, the traditional backstory. Some time ago, my employer inherited what was said to be a popular news portal site for the elder. We soon learned that the popularity was grossly exaggerated. Part of
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