Mozilla brings out Firefox 3.5.3, It’s just weird that Firefox need to crash first before initiating the upgrade.Firefox fixed several Vulnerabilitis that can be used to run attacker code and install software , without user interaction. These includes the following: MFSA 2009-51 Chrome privilege escalation with FeedWriter MFSA 2009-50 Location bar spoofing via tall line-height Unicode characters MFSA 2009-49 TreeColumns dangling pointer vulnerability MFSA 2009-47 Crashes with evidence of memory [...]
WordPress development team issued a Security Update after a discovery of a vulnerability involving a specially crafted URL that could allow an attacker to bypass a security check to certify a user requested password request. Which will result the admin account to have it’s password reset. Although your WordPress account is not compromised the emails requesting for a password change could be really annoying.
The New WordPress Security Release involves fixes on the privilege escalation issues for 2.8.1. According to the WordPress Develeopment Community this upgrading is highly recommended. They admitted that some areas were overlooked and 2.3.8 should fix them. Time to hit the update button again.. whew..
The “ga_shade div tag” is an overlay to shade the website screen and is used by Google Analytics to show clicks overlay. I figured out last night that with google analytics you can track how many users click a certain link. However this brings out a problem, after disabling the overlay the shaded part of the website is still shaded and nothing can be clicked nor selected. This issue involves [...]
July 20, Oh no.. not another wordpress upgrade.. with almost more than a week after the release of wordpress 2.8.1, the development team says: “WordPress 2.8.2 fixes an XSS vulnerability. Comment author URLs were not fully sanitized when displayed in the admin. This could be exploited to redirect you away from the admin to another site.”, now that’s freakin scary.. thanks to automatic upgrade.
reTweeting is posting a content on Twitter that repeats some information previously twitted by another twitter using a retweet service like “retweet button”, I’ve seen many blogs and website use this to encourage visitors to retweet their content on twitter, it’s like the “Digg this” button.
Good things have been happening to WordPress, the developer community is urgent to respond on fixing issues every time a bug and security hole is found. The new wordpress release mend many bugs and toughen up security for plugin administration pages. The development group where notified by a company named “Core Security Technologies” information in the Admin pages are being leaked to unprivileged users, thus this upgrade is a must. [...]
After nine months since Google released the Google Chrome Browse, Google today (July 7,2009)0 announced the comming Operating System – The Goggle Chrome OS. Here’s some excerpt from the site. We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed [...]
WordPress Blogs are everywhere, if you’re not using free hosted blogs, chances are you’re using WordPress but do you know that it can also be used as a CMS for your non blog website. My buddy Mike used Remix BusinessTheme with combination of some wordpress techniques it’s not possible for anyone know that you’re using wordpress as the backbone of his cooking website. With Remix Business Theme you only have [...]
We all know that WordPress is the one of the best free web publishing platform out there, but sometimes Sh*t happens, like the other day I can’t log in, when i go to the login page and enter the right password it just reloads the login page and wont load the Dashboard, even though I am certain that my password is correct I do a password reset but still it [...]
