The latest incremental release of popular website CMS "Joomla" has just been made available.

As you may well have heard in the news, Microsoft have announced that the next version of their Windows operating system (Windows 10) will be free for the first year.

It has been reported that Google's Adwords network has been used to try and direct people to malicious websites.

The team behind the Chrome web browser have proposed that the browser will make it much more obvious to the user when a site isn't using an SSL certificate (i.e. it hasn't got https:// at the beginning of the domain name). While just a suggestion at this stage, it is in line with the previous news that Google have already started increasing the ranking of sites that use an SSL certifcate versus those that don't.

Researchers have discovered an altered version of Cryptolocker - a nasty bit of ransomware (i.e. something that demands money to fix the problems it causes) that has been doing the rounds for the past year or so.

The days of Apple users being able to pretty much ignore the security issues that have plagued Windows users for years have been slowly coming to an end. We have seen a definite increase in machine infections ourselves, and searching online suggests that this is not a localised problem.

Version 2.5 of our go-to CMS for most major website projects, Joomla, is approaching end-of-life. From 31st December 2014, this version of Joomla will no longer be supported. This means that any security issues found will no longer be patched, and extensions will no longer be developed for this version.

The latest version of Wordpress is now available in beta form for testing ahead of the predicted final release date of December 10th.