Background to Joomla 3.4.5 Security Release.

8 years 5 months ago - 8 years 5 months ago #1 by geoffc
Last week's Joomla 3 release fixed a critical security bug . If you haven't updated your Joomla sites you should be doing to right now!

The story behind the release was interesting. The bug was found by Trustwave, a fairly big company with over 1,200 employees. Everything seemed to go well and the Joomla team praised Trustwave for their responsible approach.

Then, things went wrong. Within minutes of the bug release, Trustwave published a complete walkthrough of the hack. This was a terrible decision, and as a result, a number of sites saw hacking attempts within 2 or 3 hours.

In short, this was a serious bug and you should check all your sites.

Regards
Geoff

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