diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index ac04e16f..0907faba 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
     <org.seleniumhq.webdriver.version>0.9.7376</org.seleniumhq.webdriver.version>
     <org.testng.version>5.8</org.testng.version>
     <org.slf4j.version>1.6.4</org.slf4j.version>
-    <ch.qos.logback.version>1.0.6</ch.qos.logback.version>
+    <ch.qos.logback.version>1.2.0</ch.qos.logback.version>
     <cglib.full.version>2.0.2</cglib.full.version>
     <lucene.version>4.0.0</lucene.version>
     <jedis.version>2.1.0</jedis.version>
diff --git a/sitebricks-persist-sql/pom.xml b/sitebricks-persist-sql/pom.xml
index 3438ea74..af1d51b5 100644
--- a/sitebricks-persist-sql/pom.xml
+++ b/sitebricks-persist-sql/pom.xml
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
       <artifactId>logback-core</artifactId>
-      <version>0.9.30</version>
+      <version>1.2.0</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>