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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

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Theres a wealth of great PHP resources and tutorials scattered around out there online, including AUSWEB’s own PHP & MySQL tuts. However, here’s a giant list sorted into useful topics and catering to both beginners, and advanced PHP programmers – 101 PHP tutorials!

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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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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!

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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.

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A fair few people know what DNS lookups are, Even without having to work in the IT industry. It basically converts the pretty, familliar and easy to understand (for us) “www.domain.com” into an IP Address, which computers can understand and direct traffic to.

The Image below is from Verisign, and to make the understanding a bit easier, it ignores the process of caching.

Image source: Verisign Domain Name Industry Brief, June 2007 (PDF), last page.

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The Joomla Project announces the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.10 [Wohmamni]. This is a security release and users are strongly encouraged to upgrade immediately. Read more…

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Facebook has been targeted by malicious hackers seeking to steal valuable data from members.

The social network site has been hit by five separate security problems in the last seven days, say security experts.

By creating fake messages padded with details of Facebook members the thieves are capitalising on the trust and social links that drive the network.

Security firms warn that the popularity of social networking sites makes them a tempting target for hi-tech thieves. Read more…

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WordPress is by far the most popular blogging system known to man. It provides a great back-end with great flexibility and customization without having a complex management console to navigate. It powers this blog right here. Here is a number of plugins which you should take a look at, When installing or running a WordPress website.

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Keeping your blog secure is extremely important these days. So much so that new installs of WordPress ask the user to create four security keys. These keys help ensure that the cookies placed in your browser when logged in are not easily de-coded by would be hacker sites.

Some pre-existing installs of WordPress may only have one or two security keys while others may have none.

“Beginning with Version 2.6, three (3) security keys, AUTH_KEY, SECURE_AUTH_KEY, and LOGGED_IN_KEY, were added to insure better encryption of information stored in the user’s cookies. Beginning with Version 2.7 a fourth key, NONCE_KEY, was added to this group.

You don’t have to remember the keys, just make them long and complicated or better yet, use the online generator. ”

If you have been using WordPress for a while, you may not have these keys in place and this could cause security issues. It’s a simple fix though.

WordPress has a tool to randomly generate the four keys. You can get yours at: http://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/

Once you have them, open up your wp-config.php file and past them in. If you have one or two security keys already you can either replace them or just add in the new ones.

Save the file, re-upload it and you’re done.

You’ll probably have to re-login to your blog, but the security keys will now be in place and can help give you peace of mind.

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