
Recently we embarked on an evaluation of Joomla! website management tools, with a view to offering managed website maintenance to our clients in 2017.

This article reproduced from my personal blog www.nickyveitch.net.
On 11-13 November 2016, I attended the 5th annual Joomla! World Conference (#JWC16), in Vancouver, Canada.

We're very pleased to announce that Nicky Veitch, Principal of WebSolutionZ, has just become the first Joomla! Certified Administrator in Australia!
Check out Nicky's personal blog post about the Joomla! World Conference 2016 and the Certification experience.

In simple terms, a Brute Force attack is an automated software hack that attempts usernames and passwords over and over, until it can get in.
Recently there has been an increase in the use of Brute Force attacks against Joomla! websites.
From a website owner's perspective, a Brute Force attack has a couple of effects: