The great minds behind WordPress discovered another vulnerability yesterday: a specially crafted URL could be requested that would allow an attacker to bypass a security check to verify a user requested a password reset. That would mean that the first account without a key in the database (usually the admin account) would have its password [...]
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WordPress has just released an update to their popular blogging-software: WordPress 2.8.3. This is a security update and it is therefore highly recommended to update the WordPress installation immediately (you should be seeing the “Please update now” ribbon on top of the screen when you log into your wordpress blog. Download WordPress 2.8.3 from here.
The team of Mozilla Labs have done it – the download counter shows more than 1 billion downloads of Firefox! What started as a rewrite of the old Netscape browser has now become the second most used browser world-wide, with an almost 23% market share (according to stat counter’s figures). The recent release of FireFox [...]
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Over the last week or so, the discussion “should we continue to support IE6″ has been gaining more and more momentum. Digg, Mashable, Techcrunch and other websites ran features about why IE6 should be given the boot, websites like facebook and youtube are starting to phase out the browser, hinting users to upgrade their browser. [...]
WordPress 2.8.2 has been released, a quick update which fixes an XSS vulnerability: comment author URLs were not fully sanitized when displayed in the admin backend, which could be exploited to redirect you away from the admin dashboard to another site. Download 2.8.2 from here.
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WordPress has just released an update to their popular blog-software: WordPress 2.8.1. Aside from the usual bug fixes, this update addresses a security issue where admin pages created by certain plugins could be viewed by unprivileged users. In other notes, the update reduces the memory usage of the dashboard (always welcome!), improves the automatic upgrade [...]
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A couple of weeks ago, the creative minds behind Mozilla Labs have launched the open source project Jetpack to the FireFox community. Jetpack is an API which enables designers and developers to write add-ons using HTML, CSS and Javascript, encouraging more and more developers to join the 8,000+ people strong add-on community. The Mozilla Labs [...]
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FireFox, one of the most popular browsers on the market, has been updated to version 3.5 yesterday. Based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, this browser promises to be about twice as fast as FireFox 3 (and 10x faster than FF2!), to support new technologies, improve its performance and be even easier to use than [...]
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