Spend any time on the joomla forums and you will see "help my web site has been hacked".
The first response is always the same "please read the security checklist"
In numerous places you will see
"Use proper permissions on files and directories. They should be should never be 777"
But with JomSocial the reverse is true!
Read more: Making the upgrade to Joomla 1.6 easy
The last upgrade for Joomla was the move from 1.0 to 1.5 over 3 years ago and yet we still see many, many Joomla sites running Joomla 1.0.
Why is it that - after people have bust their ass to produce a shiny new version of our product - users are so slow to upgrade?
What can be done to ensure that the same doesn't happen with the release of Joomla 1.6?
What can we do to ensure that we aren't supporting three different and incompatible releases of Joomla! on our client's web sites?
How can we ensure that all users will see the benefits of all the hard work?
Read more: Protect Joomla! passwords on public WiFi networks
We are used to communication being secure
If we phone with our mobiles, we assume that only the people we dialled can hear us.
When transferring money we provide information via the bank's web page and we trust that nobody else can use that information to withdraw money from our accounts.
The world according to Joomla!
Joomla 1.6 Beta 1 release - do not install...
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