Help Stop SOPA/PIPA
SOPA and PIPA are acronyms you may have heard by now. Many big companies such as Facebook, Google, and Yahoo have been fighting SOPA for a while and are spending millions of dollars opposing this bill before it passes. Although the talented group of people behind WordPress generally avoid politics given the nature of their ...
WordPress 3.3.1 Security and Maintenance Release
It didn’t take long for hackers to find holes in WordPress 3.3. And it didn’t take long for the talented WordPress team to fix those holes. WordPress 3.3.1 is now available. This maintenance release fixes 15 issues with WordPress 3.3, as well as a fix for a cross-site scripting vulnerability that affected version 3.3. Read ...
Almost 5 Months Later… We Get WordPress 3.3
It has been almost 5 months since the last WordPress update. That is unheard of since the past couple years WordPress tends to release updates every month or couple months. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. In talking with Matt and other WordPress developers at WordCamp earlier this year, they explained to me that ...
Follow Up on WordPress TimThumb Security Hack
Last month we reported on a wordpress security hole found in the popular script TimThumb.php. If your site got compromised with the TimThumb vulnerability, be sure to check that script to see if it was not modified to act as a backdoor as well. Here’s the code you are looking for: Yikes! That code essentially receives a ...
Timthumb.php Vulnerability
A popular piece of software called TimThumb (aka “timthumb.php”) was recently found to have a security bug that allows “hackers” to take over Web sites that use it (more info here and here and over at VaultPress). Although TimThumb isn’t specific to WordPress, it is a highly popular WordPress plugin used to resize images on ...
Hey! My friend’s email account was hacked!
Have you ever logged into your Hotmail email account and been surprised to see an email from someone you haven’t talked to in years? Don’t open those emails! Do you really think that your old girlfriend or college fling will really email you after all these years? Would that really be the form of communication ...
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Hey! My friend’s email account was hacked!
Have you ever logged into your Hotmail email account and been surprised...