Whilst checking a site today I came across some code that triggered my scanner alert scripts.
I was unable to read the code as it was obfuscated/encrypted/encoded - select whichever you think is appropriate.
In the last weeks, I've taken a step back from my involvement into the Joomla project and took a good look at what we achieved. And let me say: Joomla has quite a lot of great and talented developers and basically all the work that has been done by them was good and deserves to be noted.
But I also saw, that we have huge problems. I'm not telling a secret when I'm saying that our releases are not really at a fast pace and we also didn't keep all our promises all the time...
But what is the cause of this?
Read more: JomSocial - You cannot be serious - chmod 777!!!
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!
Making the upgrade to Joomla 1.6 easy
Protect Joomla! passwords on public WiFi networks
The world according to Joomla!
Joomla 1.6 Beta 1 release - do not install...
