WordPress developers have warned users their popular CMS is under attack from a ‘clever’ worm that automatically compromises unpatched versions of the WordPress system. The particularly nasty bug crawls the web for vulnerable WordPress installations, installing malware, deleting content, and generally wreaking havoc wherever it can on unpatched installations.
WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg eloquently implored WordPress bloggers to update more frequently. Originally, updating the WordPress system was a rather laborious process. However, newer versions offer fast and simple one-click upgrades. The two most recent versions of WordPress (2.8.3 and 2.8.4) cannot be attacked by the worm discovered this week, and blogs hosted at WordPress.com are also apparently immune.
Moral of the story, update and update often!
Blogging, CMS, Security, Wordpress
CMS, Malware, Patch, Security, Update, Wordpress, worm
Here’s a roundup of some of the most popular open source content management system’s (CMS) available. As to be expected WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal round out the most popular, but there’s no shortage of options out there for managing your website content. There may even be a lesser known CMS which is better suited for your websites particular needs or preferences.
View the whole list here: Content Management System Roundup.
Blogging, CMS
Blogging, CMS, drupal, Joomla, Wordpress
The Joomla Project has announced the release of Joomla 1.5.14, which contains fixes for two material bugs that were introduced in version 1.5.13 and one low level security issue. Instead of waiting for the normal 6 to 8-week release cycle, this release has been made available to users now and we recommend all users of Joomla to upgrade.
You can find the latest release or appropriate upgrade package by following the link below.
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5244-joomla-1514-released.html
CMS, Joomla, PHP Applications, Scripting & Coding, Security, Web Development
Please find attached the new important Fantastico software security updates for your cPanel Hosting account
- Joomla 1.5: 1.5.12 -> 1.5.13
- Open-Realty: 2.5.6 -> 2.5.7
- SMF: 1.1.9 -> 1.1.10
- TYPO3: 4.2.1 -> 4.2.8
- WordPress: 2.8 -> 2.8.2
- Coppermine Photo Gallery: 1.4.20 -> 1.4.25
- Drupal: 6.10 -> 6.13
- LimeSurvey: 1.82+ -> 1.85+
- OpenX: 2.0.11-pr1 -> 2.8.1
- osTicket: 1.3.1 -> 1.6 RC5
- PHPlist: 2.10.9 -> 2.10.10
- phpWCMS: 1.1-RC4 Rev. A -> 1.4.2 r327
- TikiWiki: 3.0 -> 3.1
- Zen Cart: 1.3.8a -> 1.3.8a [Patched]
- Zikula: 0.764 -> 1.1.1
Please always keep your scripts save and secure and up-to-date to the newest version to prevent server and system compromise, which would not just affect you , but lots of other clients!
Best Regards and thanks you for your cooperation.
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CMS, Joomla, News, PHP Applications, Scripting & Coding, Web Development, Web Hosting News, Wordpress, cPanel, drupal
Joomla! has recently updated to 1.5.12 with a host of bug and security fixes. You can download the latest version and view the release notes at the link below:
Joomla! 1.5.12 – As usual pay close attention to the upgrade instructions, especially if you are upgrading a live or heavily modified Joomla website!
CMS, HTML, Joomla, News, PHP Applications, Web Design, Web Development
CMS, Joomla, Patch, Security, Update
Updates for Drupal versions 6.13 and 5.19 have been released this week with a host of maintenance fixes as well as some critical security vulnerabilities which have been fixed.
As always, upgrading and keeping your installations up to date is highly recommended. As always follow the Drupal upgrading procedures with a current and tested backup of your site.
CMS, PHP Applications, Scripting & Coding, Security, Web Development, drupal
CMS, drupal, Patch, php, Security, Upgrade
Here at AUSWEB we have a huge number of users running WordPress websites from personal blogs, to business oriented websites and even us here on the AUSWEB Blog!
Thanks to the huge community of WordPress users there exists a huge pool of custom scripting, plugin and theme/design resources out there for you to add various features to your blog. Often overlooked however are some of the more recent in-built features for WordPress such as shortcodes which allow you to easily call php functions within your posts, thus saving time by speeding up repeated tasks.
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Blogging, CMS, Scripting & Coding, Web Development, Wordpress
API, Blog, Blogging, CMS, php, shortcodes, Wordpress
