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Reading an old conservative blog

By Jan Dembowski on November 6, 2009

In my ongoing quest to find a moderate (read: reasonable and not over the top) conservative blog, Little Green Footballs is surprising me. Good reading.

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WordPress file monitoring

By Jan Dembowski on June 16, 2008

Over a week ago I complained about WordPress users crying security wolf and not being able to recover their blog when the “Bad Thing(tm)” happens.
Since then a real brawl developed on the support forum that could be summed up like so:

One or more users is insisting that there is an XMLRPC exploit in 2.5.1.
The same [...]

Posted in Geek, Linux, Software | Tagged aide, blog, Linux, Opensuse, php, security, support, WordPress | Leave a response

Sigh, WordPress users and hacking

By Jan Dembowski on June 3, 2008

If you are not running the latest version of WordPress and you get hacked, don’t go to the WordPress forum and tell the world.  Odds are you invited the disaster yourself.
When WordPress 2.5 came out I was disappointed to find that the old version 2.3.x was basically abandoned.  There would be no more planned patches [...]

Posted in Geek, Software | Tagged backup, blog, php, security, support, WordPress | 3 Responses

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