Christmas has come early with WordPress releasing version 3.5 – featuring a stunning new image uploader, beautiful WordPress 2012 theme and a completely revamped Admin UI for Retina display. Check out what’s new in the official release video below

Joomla 2.5.8 has been released. Notable in this build is the inclusion of a security patch for a clickjacking vulnerability affecting versions 2.5.7 and earlier versions of 2.5. 6 items from the bug tracker were also addressed. Full details can be found in the official 2.5.8 release announcement at joomla.org Since this release improves security,

WordPress is an excellent CMS, however, like with all web-applications, they require tweaking on the user’s behalf to make them bulletproof against common web-threats. If your WordPress site has been compromised or you’re just looking for some practical ways to secure it, be sure to read through these 10 unmissable reasons. Your WordPress version is

The team at F-Secure, PC Magazine and Sophos have unravelled XSS vulnrabilities within some popular WordPress themes, enabling unscrupulous users to inject JavaScript at free-will and strong-arm innocent WordPress websites. We urge you to read the blog post from Securi to see which themes are affected; additionally, it might pay to check out our Hardening WordPress guide for some extra

Joomla 3 was announced today with a slew of impressive new features. Take a look at the video below to get a glimpse of the stylish new UI and beautifully easy-to-use interface. We can say that we’ve been happy with the release, having tested it ourselves. “The Joomla! Project is pleased to announce the availability

Joomla 2.5.7 has been released. Notable items in this build include 2 security patches for cross-site scripting attacks as well as a new feature allowing languages to be installed directly from the Joomla backend interface without having to download a language pack first. 42 items from the bug tracker were also addressed. Full details can

Please find below links for the Joomla Vulnerable Extensions List and the Joomla Security news. Always keep your Joomla install updated to avoid them being hacked and compromised! http://docs.joomla.org/Vulnerable_Extensions_List http://developer.joomla.org/security/news.html   &nbsp

You can easily speed up your WordPress, Joomla, Drupal install by enabling Gzip via easyapache. EasyApache is an easy way to enable Gzip compression and will bring your PHP script loading times down. Google Page Speed takes account of Gzip compression, so it is better to enable compression to get a higher grade and possibly

Today we’ll be discussing 8 of the best WordPress Security Tips & Tricks, enabling you to secure / harden your own WordPress Blog / Website for 2012. 1. Update WordPress, Regularly Update WordPress, seriously. Currently, we stand at version 3.5.1, which, according to the WordPress Press Release addresses: A server-side request forgery vulnerability and remote port scanning

Yesterday Joomla published a security releasefor Joomla 1.5.This release (Joomla 1.5.26) addresses one High Priority and one Low Priority security issues in Joomla 1.5.25 and all earlier versions. We recommend that all Joomla 1.5 users upgrade to this version immediately.  Further Reading Official Joomla 1.5.26 Announcement Details – High Priority security issue (20120305) Details –

On Thursday the Joomla project released version 2.5.3 to patch two serious security vulnerabilities affecting all Joomla 2.5.2 and all earlier versions including Joomla 1.6 and 1.7. It is CRITICAL that all Joomla instances — version 1.6, 1.7 and 2.5 — upgrade immediately to version

Security in WordPress is taken very seriously, but as with any other system there are potential security issues that may arise if some basic security precautions aren’t taken. This article will go through some common forms of vulnerabilities, and the things you can do to help keep your WordPress installation secure. This article is not

Very enlightening video, albeit a little old about rel=canonical to tackle the dark side of CMS software’s link automation…what are your thoughts? &nbsp

Sam Quayle considers new developments, tools and, most importantly, the techniques you can use to improve page loading times and grasp your users’s diminishing attention Two seconds. According to a study undertaken by Google and Bing in 2009, that’s how long it takes before a page’s load time can have a ‘serious negative impact’ on

WordPress 3.1.3 has been released and is a security update for all previous versions. Some of the changes include: Various security hardening Taxonomy query hardening Prevent sniffing out user names of non-authors by using canonical redirects Media security fixes by Richard Lundeen of Microsoft, Jesse Ou of Microsoft, and Microsoft Vulnerability Research. Improves file upload

Whilst alarming to the end-user, so far no user log-in information seems to have been accessed. Keeping in mind this is for WordPress.com users as opposed to those running independently-hosted installations. In a relievingly transparent post (some may argue, unusual for an internet company), Matt from WordPress posts: “Automattic had a low-level (root) break-in to

After 3 years in development, the long awaited update to Drupal has recently been released. Taking it to version 7.0, with loads of new features and improvements

Version 3.0.4 of WordPress, available immediately through the update page in your dashboard or for download here, is a very important update to apply to your sites as soon as possible because it fixes a core security bug in our HTML sanitation library, called KSES. I would rate this release as “critical.”

Joomla has released an update for a long-standing security issue affecting all versions of sh404SEF. All Joomla 1.0 & 1.5 users are advised to manually update their installations as soon as possible: During the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, we were informed of a long-standing and serious security issue affecting all versions of sh404SEF for both Joomla

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