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..
According to Vulnerability note VU#443060 issued by US-CERT (United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team, Mozilla Firefox 3.5 contains a Highly Critical Security Hole that allows hackers to execute malicious code.
