A client of ours emailed us yesterday and told us that clients weren’t able to checkout on his VirtueMart store. He told us that they were seeing the following error: Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to www.eprocessingnetwork.Com:443 We did a quick research on the issue and it looked like it was caused by an […]
This morning, we thought we had a little time to do something fun, and so we created a command to generate a list of all user agent strings (or signatures) on a very high traffic Joomla website that we maintain. “Why is that?”, we hear you ask… Well, because 1) we were curious about which […]
Let’s say you want, for one reason or another (hopefully a good reason), to know the version of a Joomla website that you don’t own. You don’t have FTP/sFTP access to the site’s filesystem, you don’t have access to the backend, and you don’t know the owner. So, what do you do? Well, for the […]
One of the biggest mistakes that system administrators make when analyzing the Apache server logs, is that they ignore many of the “500” HTTP errors (also known as Internal Server Errors). They think that these fatal errors – if they are not happening on legitimate pages, then they are not worth investigating. Little do they […]
Occasionally, Joomla administrators face the infamous allowed memory size error which forces them to increase the memory_limit value in the global php.ini or in a local .user.ini file by adding the following line: memory_limit=256M The above code will increase the memory limit to 256 megabytes, which is more than ample for any Joomla website out […]
We just got a call from a new client, telling us that she was perplexed about the fact that the number of banner impressions on her Joomla website is unrealistic. She said that her Joomla website is getting about 10K visitors/month according to Google Analytics, but the number of impressions counted on her Joomla website […]
The last time we had a case of SQL injection on a Joomla website was a long time ago – and the affected Joomla website was a Joomla 1.5.10 website (which is highly exploitable – even by Joomla 1.5.26 standards). Since then (we are now in October of 2016), we have not seen a single […]
Some time ago, while performing daily maintenance work for one of our large clients, we noticed that some of the external links that they had had some weird hash in them. What was interesting is that all these external links that had this problem were domains owned by the client. A little digging into the […]