Security

Article: jhttp_scan

DOWNLOAD VERSION 1.0.1 Also read the reviews for jhttp_scan on the Joomla Extensions Directory. Talk about it in the The Art of Joomla Group at people.joomla.org. jscan_http is a command line utility that...

Article: jhttp_scan Version 1.0.1 released

Version 1.0.1 of jhttp_scan, a command-line security tool for scanning Joomla sites, has now been released.  Thanks go to Brian Teeman and Alex Kempkens for their fixes and contributions to this version. For more information and download...

Article: Removing a Legacy: Part 1

Joomla 1.5 provides a "Legacy Mode" to allow most developers a way to get up-and-running easily. However, you really want to get off the dependence on Legacy Mode as soon as you can. The new Joomla framework in version 1.5 provides a far...

Article: Stumping the Spoofers

It's official name is Cross Site Request Forgeries (CSRF) but we sometimes call it form spoofing for short. Under the right conditions a person can do a lot of things they are not supposed to do.  A very common type of attack is where you, for...