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In case you missed this, the Joomla project has just released two new security-tagged releases for Joomla 1.7 and Joomla 1.5. The official note states: "High Priority - Core - Password Change Vulnerability".
Reading between the lines it looks like weak random number generation technics used in previous versions could lead to unwanted password changing. The obvious question is: Since I use Community Builder for my registration and login processes, should I be concerned?
As with any Joomla security release, the CB team spent some time to analyze the vulnerability and to assess the implications for Community Builder, all CB team add-ons, GroupJive and Incubator add-ons, and for the CB community and our own sites and hosting. When serious concerns exist, we inform the CB community through our homepage, our social channels, and our security mailing list.
Read more: Joomla 1.7.3 and 1.5.25 security releases: Are they for me?
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This is considered a security release and all website are encouraged to update to this release. All Joomla 1.7, 1.6 and 1.5 environments can just update by installing over their existing installations (as always take precautionary backup first).
CB 1.7.1 continues to work on all Joomla versions (Joomla 1.7.x, 1.6.x, 1.5.x and 1.0.x) and Mambo and can be downloaded by all registered members from our Free download area.
Advanced and Professional members can download updated detailed documentation from the Advanced download area.
For full changelog and feedback please join the discussion below.
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Security scan your websites for a whole month for free thanks to our cooperation with McAfee®!
This Free compementary McAfee SECURE™ account is available to all Advanced and Professional members and can be used for a full month of daily scanning for up to 50 of your websites!
Complete the sign-up form (no credit card needed) by September 30th and get this awesome security service for a full month for free! Then visit your service dashboard and add your website URLs to schedule daily remote scanning (nothing to install on your websites).
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This is a great opportunity to identify and fix vulnerabilities present on your websites.The scanning is done on the entire environment from the application level (Joomla and extensions) down to your hosting infrastructure.
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Do it now, after September 30th, the free deal is gone, choose your plan above and rush to check your sites’ security before it’s too late.
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Joomlapolis and McAfee collaboration brings security services offerings to Joomlapolitans!
Joomlapolis is now offering the McAfee SECURE™ trustmark and the McAfee® PCI Certification service for its membership.
The two organizations have been working on this arrangement in order to bring highly respected security related offerings at fantastic way below retail pricing to the over 400,000 Joomlapolis members.
Nicole Chovan from the McAfee Web Security Group stated:
"We are excited to address the 400,000 members of Joomlapolis and offer them our McAfee SECURE trustmark and McAfee PCI Certification services and look forward to working closely with individual members to make their websites as secure as possible through our services."
Beat from Joomlapolis responded:
"As Joomlapolis website administrators, we have been using the McAfee SECURE trustmark (see our homepage dynamic McAfee SECURE trustmark) and we have been extremely impressed with the daily scanning that tests our site for more than 12,000 vulnerabilities (including Joomla related scanning) helping us keep Joomlapolis secure and safe. All Joomla websites can benefit from these services!"
Learn more about McAfee SECURE Trustmark and PCI-DSS services through our dedicated pages in the CB Solutions menu above.
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22 June 2011, Joomlapolis has just registered its 400,000th member!
Our fantastic community has been constantly growing and its times like this that we must sit back and take a closer look at what we have accomplished. And, of course, give thanks to everyone involved, no matter how small or large the contribution is perceived.
It’s not only the membership count. We need to consider the huge popularity Community Builder has earned over the years. CB has consistently been one of the most popular Joomla extensions and we estimate between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 CB installations with over 60,000,000 – 100,000,000 public profiles (base: Google search)! These numbers are truly awesome! And the fact that CB has remained stable and secure throughout its versions and all of the Mambo and Joomla versions is another great achievement in itself!
Who shall we give thanks to?
Well, for starters, we need to take our hats off to Joomla for its inspiration and good will pushing forward what is clearly the easiest open-source content management system around today.
The CB Team has been giving back to the Joomla project in many ways. As individuals contributing time towards tracker items, reporting, code fixes, magazine articles, etc. And as a project by sponsoring many Joomla related events over the years. And today, as another token of our sincere appreciation, Joomlapolis has donated $400 in honor of our 400K members to the Joomla project. THANK YOU JOOMLA!
We need to thank our community and this means YOU. You, the user, the forum poster, the Advanced member, the Professional member, the template purchaser, the CBSubs user, the tester, the language translator, the complainer, the reviewer (yes we read them, so please keep them coming!), the silent observer – each and every one of YOU has contributed to this huge success. THANK YOU!
And we need to thank our core team members (Beat, Nick and Kyle) for their patience and perseverance and most of all their understanding that beyond the fame and glory things need to stay fun and peaceful.
So, in true Joomlapolitan tradition, we are launching a week-long celebration with nice discounts and daily FREE gifts from Joomlapolis and from our third party friends! Take a peek at your personal profile coupon booklet and see our offerings and those of our friends. During the week-long celebration period, visit your coupon book every day as the Joomlapolis FREE GIFT will be changing each day! Many great products and services (extensions, CB plugins, templates, training, books, etc.) are being offered to YOU, our Joomlapolis member, at great discounts of up to 40%!
Update: The 400k celebration has been a huge success and has ended after 7 busy days on 29 June 2011. Once again: Thank You for your support!
Join the celebration discussion below - we will tweet and reward the best celebration slogans!
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