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July 12th, 2008

Goodbye ZoneAlarm!

I was a loyal ZoneAlarm firewall user for years. Despite its annoying prompts and resource-hogging, I stuck with it through multiple versions. Even after ZoneAlarm developer Check Point foolishly dropped the software’s cool red-and-yellow logo for the boring green-and-blue one, I still stuck with it.
Today, I uninstalled ZoneAlarm, and I am never installing it again. […]

By Mike Abundo -- 3 comments

April 9th, 2008

WordPress Hack Epidemic!

The WordPress hidden text exploit I blogged earlier has exploded to epidemic proportions, hitting even big sites like ZDNet. The worst part: ZDNet wasn’t even running an old version of WordPress.
The attack is two-pronged: it creates spammy pages within blogs, and it creates hidden text links to those spammy pages on other blogs. A single […]

By Mike Abundo -- 0 comments

March 27th, 2008

New WordPress Hack Inserts Hidden Text

Ruth Kusterer reveals a new WordPress hack that lets spammers put hidden text on WordPress-powered sites. The worst part: the hack works on multiple versions.
Somebody managed to insert a div with spam text into a blog entry’s content (and in one case even into the description meta tag). As opposed to ‘normal’ comment spam (see […]

By Mike Abundo -- 6 comments

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