Tuesday, 14 October 2025

"I think that there is a bigger picture to look at here. The Joomla CMS is just another example of a 3rd party application being vulnerable due to lack of security ownership.

We have been looking deeply into CMS systems such as WordPress, Joomla and others lately. There is a clear appetite for hackers to look into vulnerabilities in CMS software, and more important – custom plug-ins. There have already been several studies showing both the consumer growth of the CMS deployment, but also the vulnerable stage of it. This extends to more than just CMS systems, but to every piece a of 3rd party application that one might implement in their organization. And while bringing the organization forward in technology, all of a sudden you lack patch control. You have to rely on the vendor to execute security best practices. Unfortunately we live in a world where security is yet to be something you outsource completely.

Talking Point
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It’s what might be regarded as Egypt’s sorrow, hence the world was unanimous in its condemnation of the orgiastic killings in that country yesterday, Wednesday, August 14th, 2013, which according to Egyptian Authorities left about 460 dead. But the Brotherhoods disputed the Interim Government’s statistics, claiming the number of deaths was more-above 2000.

International Security, Safety & Strategic Defence
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The United States strongly condemns Wednesday’s violence and bloodshed across Egypt. It’s a serious blow to reconciliation and the Egyptian people’s hopes for a transition towards democracy and inclusion. In the past week, at every occasion, perhaps even more than the past week, we and others have urged the government to respect the rights of free assembly and of free expression, and we have also urged all parties to resolve this impasse peacefully and underscored that demonstrators should avoid violence and incitement.

International Security, Safety & Strategic Defence
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Neil Matthews, Vice President, Checkpoint Systems, highlights the top 10 Loss Prevention trends as highlighted by the recent Changing Retail, Changing Loss Prevention report that analyses global retail crime and loss prevention (LP) since 2001.

Viewpoints
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  1. Performanta CTO reacts to UK's Cyber Security Minister's statement
  2. The Tech Trailblazers Awards partner with Hippflow to reach out to Russia’s startup community
  3. Healthcare organizations and IT partners benefit from broader support for XDS-i and overall VNA performance improvements
  4. Vacant Property Protection Group committed to best practice
  5. Kelway answersiIndustry need for disaster recovery with ServiceWorks Assure
  6. Accellion increases mobile productivity for Microsoft SharePoint users
  7. Criminal Minds: Thinking Like a Hacker Makes Good Data Governance Sense
  8. ISACA White Paper: Five Key Questions to Improve Big Data Governance
  9. NICE launches quality Assurance solution for public safety as part of new version of NICE Inform
  10. DOSarrest begins offering vulnerability testing and optimisation
  11. Skills for Security welcomes new Director General
  12. gateprotect and Webroot partner to deliver a holistic approach to complete security
  13. SANS Digital Forensics and Incident Response 2013 summit
  14. Cloud Contact Centres become a reality for 2013
  15. United Kingdom joins Japan and South Africa to ratify the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006)



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