{"id":1676,"date":"2013-06-10T16:50:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T22:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2013-06-10T16:50:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T22:50:28","slug":"natos-allied-command-transformation-website-running-outdated-and-unsupported-version-of-joomla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/10\/natos-allied-command-transformation-website-running-outdated-and-unsupported-version-of-joomla\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO&#8217;s Allied Command Transformation Website Running Outdated and Unsupported Version of Joomla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NATO ministers meet last week and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/nato-agrees-to-boost-cyber-defenses-argues-over-how-7000016386\/\">discussed improving their cybersecurity<\/a>. A bad sign for their current handling of cybersecurity is the website of NATO&#8217;s Allied Command Transformation, which is running an outdated and unsupported version of Joomla:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/joomla-version-check\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1681\" alt=\"NATO Allied Command Transformation Website is Running Joomla 1.5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/nato-allied-command-transformation-website-joomla-version.png.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/nato-allied-command-transformation-website-joomla-version.png.png 500w, https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/nato-allied-command-transformation-website-joomla-version.png-300x90.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.joomla.org\/viewtopic.php?t=717471\">Security updates for Joomla 1.5 ended in September of 2012<\/a>, so the website should have been migrated to a supported version of Joomla &#8211; currently versions 2.5 and 3.1 &#8211; some time ago .<\/p>\n<p>Keeping the software powering a website up to date is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/resources\/secure-your-website-from-hackers.html\">basic measure needed to be taken to keep it secure<\/a> and it is relativity easy in comparison to what NATO needs to do to fully secure all of their systems.<\/p>\n<p>It might be reasonable to cut NATO some slack on their failure to keep up to date considering that Joomla is still running Joomla 1.5 on a number of their websites:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1677\" alt=\"Joomla Extensions Directory is Running Joomla 1.5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/joomla-extensions-directory-joomla-version.png.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/joomla-extensions-directory-joomla-version.png.png 500w, https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/joomla-extensions-directory-joomla-version.png-300x90.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1678\" alt=\"Joomla Community Portal is Running Joomla 1.5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/joomla-community-portal-joomla-version.png.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/joomla-community-portal-joomla-version.png.png 500w, https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/joomla-community-portal-joomla-version.png-300x90.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1679\" alt=\"Joomla Resource Directory is Running Joomla 1.5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/joomla-resources-directory-joomla-version.png.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/joomla-resources-directory-joomla-version.png.png 500w, https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/joomla-resources-directory-joomla-version.png-300x90.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATO ministers meet last week and discussed improving their cybersecurity. A bad sign for their current handling of cybersecurity is the website of NATO&#8217;s Allied Command Transformation, which is running an outdated and unsupported version of Joomla: Security updates for Joomla 1.5 ended in September of 2012, so the website should have been migrated to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/10\/natos-allied-command-transformation-website-running-outdated-and-unsupported-version-of-joomla\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NATO&#8217;s Allied Command Transformation Website Running Outdated and Unsupported Version of Joomla&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-security","category-joomla","category-outdated-web-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1685,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions\/1685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}