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Many WordPress blogs at risk from image-based zero-day vulnerability

Published by pratyushkp on August 3rd, 2011 - in Social, Technology

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Post from Sophosh Authored by Paul Ducklin

Bilocating technology blogger Mark Maunder – he claims to live in Seattle and Cape Town concurrently, though I suspect he means consecutively, and I’ll wager he wisely avoids winter in both of them – recently wrote aboutan intrusion to his WordPress site.

It turns out the backdoor was a previously-unexploited, or at least a previously-undocumented, flaw in a useful little WordPress addon, shared by many WordPress themes, called timthumb.

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Tags: Cape Town, Confidence trick, Filesystem permissions, Folder (computing), GD Graphics Library, PHP, Seattle, Uniform Resource Locator, WordPress

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5 Things to Know About WordPress 3.2

Published by pratyushkp on July 11th, 2011 - in Social, Technology

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Post from Mashable , Authored by Christina Warren.

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Self-hosted WordPress.org users got a nice surprise on Independence Day with the release of WordPress 3.2, “Gershwin.”

WordPress 3.2 is the fifteenth major WordPress release in the project’s eight-year history. The focus in this release was to make things faster, lighter and more streamlined.

We’ve spent some time with WordPress 3.2, both in its various betas and in the final version, and put together this guide to what’s new, improved and enhanced.

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Tags: Christina Warren, google chrome, Health Check, Internet Explorer 6, IPad, MySQL, PHP, Rackspace, WordPress, WordPress 3.2

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WordPress 3.1 Downloaded Over 15 Million Times In Under 5 Months

Published by pratyushkp on July 4th, 2011 - in Social, Technology

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The latest stable version of WordPress, 3.1, was first released on 23 February 2011.

Now, less than 5 months later, the blogging software has been downloaded over 15 million times according to a tweet posted mere minutes ago (and the download counter).

Joomla just recently announced that its software has been downloaded 23 million times (note that this is the total number, not for any specific versions of the software solution).

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Tags: Blog, Internet Explorer 6, Joomla, MySQL, Patch (computing), PHP, Publishers, Software release life cycle, TechCrunch, Tools, WordPress

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WordPress.org Forces Password Resets Due To Compromised Plugins

Published by pratyushkp on June 22nd, 2011 - in Social, Technology

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WordPress.org has just posted the following on its blog:

“Earlier today the WordPress team noticed suspicious commits to several popular plugins (AddThis, WPtouch, and W3 Total Cache) containing cleverly disguised backdoors. We determined the commits were not from the authors, rolled them back, pushed updates to the plugins, and shut down access to the plugin repository while we looked for anything else unsavory.”

According to founder Matt Mullenweg, WordPress .org has decided to reset all WordPress.org, bbPress.org and BuddyPress.org passwords, because of suspicious activity surrounding popular plugins AddThis, WPTouch and W3 Total Cache.

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