Joomla has been criticized by unknowledgeable people as insecure when in fact the project takes security very seriously. As members of oCert (Oman National CERT) they follow some specific procedures when dealing with security issues.

The truth is that no software is airtight, unless you do your part to secure it. This guilde will provide you with some simple and practical steps to circumvent the most common security holes and help keep your site safe and secure.

Now in its sixth year, many consider the Packt Open Source Award as a top honor for an open source project. Joomla won the award based on a combination of public voting and input by a panel of judges consisting of open source luminaries.

Julian Copes of Packt Publishing said: “Although around since 2005, Joomla really reinvented itself this year with the introduction of Joomla 1.6 and 1.7, the first product releases for the CMS since 2008. Furthermore, Joomla realized dramatic growth this year as evidenced by its number of downloads and documented government sites powered by Joomla. We are proud to honor Joomla with its third Packt Open Source Award since we launched it six years ago.”

Joomla previously won the same award, the Packt Open Source CMS Award, in 2006 and also won the Packt Best PHP Open Source CMS Award 2007. Some of the milestones the open source CMS reached this year that contributed to it winning the Packt award include:

With more power the new JCK Explorer makes file browsing a whole lot smarter!  You can view files via collection of beautifully crafted layouts & skins! Copy, paste, rename & delete files & folders - or why not create new ones? You can upload multiple files & images via the SWF uploader & quickly locate them with a powerful search & filtering capabilities.

View thumbnails in one place without needing to navigate away! It doesn’t stop there as Joomla! user groups can have their own personal folders, which can be used in a variety of ways! For storing online documents, for nested folders, for relative links to media, flash, electronic documents and image files...

In the end, it’s about getting what you need, when you need it, so we’ve made it quicker, easer and smarter!