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    Re: joomla.org gets new skin ... and promptly gets hacked!

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    Re: joomla.org gets new skin ... and promptly gets hacked!

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    • Wayne Krazz wrote:
      Bugger I just did .6 yesterday... :(

      ...guess I am not alone, then. At least I did fulll site backups, so I'll just drop any new update in the root and go for broke. :)
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    Re: joomla.org gets new skin ... and promptly gets hacked!

    Posted 16 years 3 months ago
    • I can understand that.
      Hats off to those who owed up to the mistake.Andrew Altamirano wrote:
      www.joomla.org/announcements/general-new...e-to-joomla-156.html

      apparently they forgot to upgrade to 1.5.6 themselves
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    Re: joomla.org gets new skin ... and promptly gets hacked!

    Posted 16 years 3 months ago
    • Joomla.org wrote:
      Why you should upgrade to Joomla 1.5.6
      Thursday, 14 August 2008

      This morning, Joomla.org was defaced a few hours after releasing our new design. This is not a new security issue, but only poor system administration practices on our part. When we updated our Web sites with the Joomla 1.5.6 security fix released yesterday, we simply forgot to update one of our small, non-public development sites.

      Now, we could offer many excuses why it was overlooked—we were focused on fixing this vulnerability, creating the packages, and getting the word out. But the truth is, there is no excuse. This is an obvious and sobering reminder to the Joomla Project that staying current with upgrades is the most important step towards protecting your Web site.

      Nothing but good will come of this experience. There's nothing like first hand experience to remind us of the trust our end user community places in us and the importance of working harder and smarter towards improving security.

      Please, upgrade to Joomla 1.5.6 now, if you have not already done so. In retrospect, we wish we'd followed our own advice more diligently.
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