This is not always due to a hack, mostly, it is a site administrators failure.I have had a spate of new Users appearing in my User Manager.I am the only authorised user on my sites (Super User) - so how do these idiot spammers get in; and how to block them in future? I've received email messages from my website,  telling me that a...

One of the requirements to get your vulnerable extension marked as resolved is that you publish a security release announcement on your website. However we have noticed that developers often seem to have trouble with understanding what this means.

So what does it mean? We do not have a standard format for this, however we do ask that any reasonably...

Recently an issue was reported to the Vulnerable Extensions List team, which affected the blogging platform for Joomla, Easy Blog. After some thought we decided that it did not fall within the normal definition of a security issue that would merit listing on the VEL. It was reported to us by a site owner whose site had been hit by an...

There has a been a lot of talk recently about responsible disclosure issues especially with new developers and glory seekers. The VEL team have its own responsible disclosure code, namely that we wont list any Proof of concept or samples. we will only give the bare minimum.. All we ask is...