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security
Your WordPress site (or any web site you put on the Internet) has value. Take care of it, it is your front yard and what the neighbors see. It’s your front office where you invite people to talk or do… Continue Reading →
Sometimes I do overthink things. I wrote a plugin to protect Gravatar image URLs.
It reads a little like a rant, but you really can’t blame him. I’m not even going to link any of the articles because they have so many inaccuracies you become stupider by reading them. If you’re a web host… Continue Reading →
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 –… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
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.
