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Village Idiot wants to punish the Newark Scare guy
Here we go.
“He’s really an unwelcome guest,” Lautenberg told The Record of Bergen County. “He should be returned to his homeland.”
via Controversy swirls over graduate student who breached security at Newark Airport | New Jersey Real-Time News – – NJ.com.
This translates into
“I’m 85 years old but may want to get re-elected anyway. So I’m going [...]
Woo, they got the Newark Scare Guy
Nice to see Senator Lautenberg still goes for the sound bite. Is he up for re-election?
“This was a terrible deed in its outcome — it wasn’t some prank that didn’t do any harm — it did a lot of harm because it sent out an alert that people can get away with something like this,” [...]
Get your red hot WordPress 2.8.6
WordPress 2.8.6 is out and it’s a security release so update now.
I’m expecting the usual complaints on the support forum but so far it’s been pretty sedate. I’ve been using WordPress since version 1.5.2 and I’ve never had a bad upgrade. Of course, I have a good idea what I’m doing and have never used [...]
WordPress file monitoring
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 [...]
Sigh, WordPress users and hacking
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 [...]
.htaccess to prevent wp-pass.php redirects
See the BUGTRAQ explanation here. By passing arguments to wp-pass.php, the wp-pass.php file will send the requesting browser to the URL that wp_http_refferer points to. By using a simple script the WordPress installation is easily verified as susceptible.
Safari 3 beta, safer and faster?
Security. Sweet.
Security on Safari 3 Beta. Not so sweet.
BetaNews | ‘Day One’ for Safari for Windows Becomes Zero-Day Nightmare
Speed! Sweet.
Speed. Can’t see the increase myself. Not so sweet.
Joel on Software: Apple Safari for Windows: The world’s slowest web browser
Joel updates the post a few times regarding the speed thing. I get a [...]
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