I have to say that one of the more interesting takeaways from WordCamp was how wildly used it was. There was great presentations of how Education has turned towards it. There was a presentation about a project to use WordPress as a backend to create your own personalized Social Network. But the most interesting in [...]
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WordPress 2.3.3 is an urgent security release. If you have registration enabled a flaw was found in the XML-RPC implementation such that a specially crafted request would allow a user to edit posts of other users on that blog. In addition to fixing this security flaw, 2.3.3 fixes a few minor bugs. If you [...]
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[...]The first rule of hacking, after all, is “Don’t get caught.” And Fox newsman Darrell Phillipsmay have broken that rule, says Drew Curtis. Curtis, is the founder of Fark.com, a thoroughly juvenile, and entertaining, social news site where users pick the headlines. Phillips, is the new media manager at WHBQ Fox13, a News Corp.-owned TV [...]
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WordPress 2.2.1 is now available. 2.2.1 is a bug fix release for the 2.2 series. Since 2.2 was released a month ago, the WordPress community has been improving fit-and-finish by identifying and fixing those little bugs that can be so annoying and by fine-tuning some small details. The result is a nicely polished 2.2.1 release. [...]
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Bring it on, AACS-LA.[The New Freedom]
So… how do you DMCA a tattoo off of a person? I talked earlier about how a certain number is being threatened with copyright infringement. And I wonder how Rich plans to tell people that it’s a “09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0 tattoo”? Is a magazine permitted to print photos of this tattoo? [...]
Support Intelligence, a network security company in San Francisco, is running “30 Days of Bots,” a project that posts the names of big companies whose networks have been infected with spam-spewing bots.Since March 28, the list identified more than a dozen corporations, including 3M, Aflac, AIG, Bank of America, Conseco and Thomson Financial.Not all companies [...]
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WordPress 2.1.3 and 2.0.10We have a security update release now available for both the 2.1 and 2.0 branches of WordPress now available for immediate download. This update is highly recommend for all users of both branches.
These releases include fixes for several publicly known minor XSS issues, one major XML-RPC issue, and a proactive full sweep [...]
In what has got to be the stupidest move in the history of community features, Digg has created a URL-powered friend-adder. Basically, all you have to do is visit the url http://digg.com/invitefrom/{username} such as http://digg.com/invitefrom/russvirante and you automatically add them as your friend if you are currently logged in to Digg.So, why is this royally [...]
When a Oracle Exec crosses over to Canada he goes through typical customs until he gets to his laptop. Having found out that it was his personal machine they decide it needed review…
[...] He asks me how to proceed. I was a bit dumbfounded at that point - what do you mean? “Well, [...]
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Consumers are bombarded with warnings about identity theft. Publicized threats range from mailbox thieves and lost laptops to the higher-tech methods of e-mail scams and corporate data invasions.
Now, experts are warning that photocopiers could be a culprit as well.
That’s because most digital copiers manufactured in the past five years have disk drives - the same [...]
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