(Jan 6) Jann Horn discovered that users of the CUPS printing system who are part of the lpadmin group could modify several configuration parameters with security impact. Specifically, this allows an attacker to read or write arbitrary files as root which can be used to elevate privileges. [More…]
(Jan 6) KB Sriram discovered that GnuPG, the GNU Privacy Guard did not sufficiently sanitise public keys on import, which could lead to memory and keyring corruption. [More…]
In the January 2013 survey we received responses from 629,939,191 sites.
Apache continued its decline in market share that began in mid-2012, now having 100 million fewer hostnames than in June 2012: it still retains a clear majority at 55.26% of the market. Both within the million busiest sites and on the internet as a whole, nginx has continued its ascendance, increasing its market share to 12.77% and 12.64% respectively. Where the version is known, the widest deployed version of nginx is the current stable branch (1.2.x) but the bulk of Apache users are still using the 2.2.x branch of Apache httpd despite the new features available in the 2.4.x branch which has been available since February 2012.
Amazon now hosts 9.3 million hostnames using their cloud computing platforms — gaining more than one million sites this month, and more than doubling within the past year. The most used web server at Amazon is nginx, being used on more than 44% of all hostnames, many of which are being served by Heroku, a Platform as a Service (PaaS) provider.
Notwithstanding Amazon’s fast growth, Go Daddy hosts 36 million sites — nearly 6% of the world’s websites — making it the largest hosting company in terms of hostnames. The number of sites hosted does not, however, necessarily scale with the number of computers (physical or virtual) used to serve the corresponding content: shared hosting providers will often be able to host several hundred or even thousand sites from a single machine, whereas VPS and dedicated hosting providers may only serve a few. Although Netcraft found 23k web-facing computers at Go Daddy, Amazon has been the largest hosting company in terms of web-facing computers since September 2012 with 139k web-facing computers this month — Go Daddy hosts, on average, more than 23 times more sites per web-facing computer than Amazon. Although Go Daddy is the largest hosting company by hostname, the distribution of sites hosted is skewed towards the less busy: it hosts 2.6% of the million busiest sites, and only a single site in the top 1,000. Amazon, on the other hand, hosts a similar number in the million busiest, and 5.1% of the top 1,000 sites.
Almost two-thirds of the web-facing computers at Go Daddy run Microsoft Windows, with the vast majority running Windows server 2008. With such a high proportion of Windows-powered websites, Go Daddy, unsurprisingly, hosts the largest number of sites powered by ASP.NET. More than 24 million sites hosted by Go Daddy were actively using ASP.NET, whereas relatively few (2.4 million) were using the otherwise popular PHP scripting language.
| Developer | December 2012 | Percent | January 2013 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache | 352,951,511 | 55.70% | 348,119,032 | 55.26% | -0.43 |
| Microsoft | 111,570,010 | 17.61% | 106,619,177 | 16.93% | -0.68 |
| nginx | 76,460,756 | 12.07% | 79,640,472 | 12.64% | 0.58 |
| 21,870,614 | 3.45% | 22,573,858 | 3.58% | 0.13 |
| Developer | December 2012 | Percent | January 2013 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache | 103,128,107 | 55.47% | 103,682,570 | 55.50% | 0.03 |
| nginx | 21,993,817 | 11.83% | 22,227,083 | 11.90% | 0.07 |
| Microsoft | 21,224,672 | 11.42% | 21,211,254 | 11.35% | -0.06 |
| 14,837,660 | 7.98% | 15,022,947 | 8.04% | 0.06 |
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| Developer | December 2012 | Percent | January 2013 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache | 586,594 | 59.04% | 583,143 | 58.69% | -0.34 |
| Microsoft | 131,344 | 13.22% | 131,830 | 13.27% | 0.05 |
| nginx | 123,593 | 12.44% | 126,909 | 12.77% | 0.33 |
| 20,700 | 2.08% | 19,879 | 2.00% | -0.08 |
The January issue of the Joomla Community Magazine is here! Our stories this month:
There Are No Limits…, by Dianne Henning
The Beginning: A New Joomla User Tells Her Story, by Renea Leathers
JWC 12 – An Unexpected Journey, by Olivier NOLBERT
Join a JUG, by Richard Pearce
The Joomla Translation Experience, by Helvecio
The Shift Joomla Needs to Make: My Challenge, by Luke Summerfield
Joomla! 3.0 Extension Development Series: Setting the Stage, by David Hurley
The Two Most Important Things You Can do to Secure Your Joomla Site, by Alan Langford
How Secure is Your Joomla! Website?, by Ruth Cheesley
What Makes a Website Memorable?, by Pete Juratovivc
Successful Extension Potluck, JUG Bay Area, California, USA, by Jennifer Gress
How SSL Can Secure and Add Features to Your Joomla! Site, by Alex Andreae
Training Your Clients with Video – Part 1, by Rod Martin
Mobilize Joomla!, by Ali Safaie
The Unbalanced Force in Your Marketing Strategy, by Luke Summerfield
Browse the international articles submitted this month.
We want to publish your Joomla! story in the next JCM issue! So take a look at our Author Resources content to get a better idea of what we are looking for, and then register to become a JCM author and submit your Joomla! story!
(Dec 29) It was discovered that missing input validation in the twikidraw and anywikidraw actions can result in the execution of arbitrary code. This security issue in being actively exploited. [More…]
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