At itoctopus, we are paranoid about the security of our managed clients’ websites – as such, we always research revolutionary ways to better protect these websites against potential exploits. Last week, we conducted a honeypot project on one of the largest websites that we manage. For those of you who don’t know what a honeypot […]

Do you have time for a simple experiment? If yes, then try the following: Download Joomla. Install it on a local or a remote server. Once the website is working, rename the plugins folder to plugins_old. Visit the website, and you will notice that the website still works. Now rename the modules folder to modules_old, […]

A common issue on Joomla websites with frontend editing is that the behavior of the “Save” button on the frontend is different from the behavior of the “Save” button in the backend. The “Save” button in the backend saves the item and redirects back to the item’s page while the “Save” button on the frontend […]

Let’s do a simple experiment together. Go to your Joomla website, type in something like: http://www.[yourjoomlawebsite].com/test.jpg (assuming you do not have a test.jpg file in the root directory of your Joomla website). You will notice that Joomla displays a 404 error. What’s wrong with that, you may be wondering? Well, what is wrong is that […]