July 18th, 2008
Now this is odd. I upgraded my personal blog to WordPress 2.6 the other day. Everything looked normal until now. Suddenly, I’m being asked to upgrade to version 2.6 again.
Anyone else seeing this false update notification?
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By Mike Abundo -- 5 comments
July 16th, 2008
Now this is how software should be upgraded! WordPress 2.6 ships with a plethora of cool and useful new features, minus the usual backward compatibility headaches. I just installed it on my personal blog, and it’s already making my life easier.
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By Mike Abundo -- 1 comment
April 9th, 2008
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
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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