Having closed the company for 2 weeks to allow everyone to enjoy the summer holidays - it’s now back to work with a precise to-do list that ensures the smooth continuance of both design work and clients sites.

The most pressing issue for us is the upgrade of all our sites from 1.5.x to 1.5.6
This security release was put out on the 12th of August and one of our sites was attacked and went down screaming exactly one day later. Fortunately, with a support strategy designed to combat such eventualities and a bod on standby - we were back up and running within 90 minutes. But many tales of woe are creeping across developer blogs - explaining a not so swift return to normal service.

If you didn’t upgrade yet - get the security update at the Joomla site

SECURITY [HIGH] Fixed security hole in reset logic to check for proper token length.

We back up our sites daily - this should be common practice for any Joomla professionals running sites for their clients or offering ISP services.

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