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Wednesday, 19 March 2014
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The latest in a series of exploits of websites for bad intent comes to the world wide web courtesy of Joomla. The latest version, 3.2.3, is available now and fixes a critical SQL injection vulnerability, two medium priority XSS bugs and an unauthorised login bug. We recently had a web hosting client with a Joomla site get hacked so that it could be used as a platform to send enormous amounts of spam. In another recent case, a virus was placed on a Joomla site so that site visitors would get their machines compromised by the virus.

Open source and widely available on-line software for building web sites must be updated regularly or your site will almost certainly be exploited by hackers and others bent on using your inattentiveness for their own purposes. Sometimes these exploits cause damage to your own site, but sometimes they use your site to do damage to others. Either way, you must remain vigilant and keep up with your updates.

This Joomla vulnerability along with a recent DDoS attack by 160,000 non-updated WordPress sites highlights the importance of maintaining updates to your on-line software. Of course, if you are using our Build111 or Church111 CMS website builders, you don't have to worry about this since we do all necessary security updates for you.

If you have any questions about online security, web hosting, web design or issues with your 111 Web Studio web hosting, please give us a call at (877) 397-7605 and we'll help you out.

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Posted on 03/19/2014 10:42 AM by Customer Service
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