By Mike Johnston December 4, 2014 Articles and Editorials  Comments Let’s face it, there simply is no other CMS that has even come close the the level of popularity that WordPress has managed to achieve. It’s an admirable accomplishment that is well deserved. WordPress has taken what used to be complex functionality that only technical...Read More
December 03, 2014 WordPress users who manage their sites through InfiniteWP could have their sites compromised if the client isn’t updated. A Sucuri researcher found a vulnerability in the plugin that could allow an attacker to disable user web sites by putting them in maintenance mode, thus giving an attacker control of the maintenance page’s...Read More
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Pirate theme and plugin providers are targeting WordPress, Drupal and Joomla users through a packaged backdoor called CryptoPHP. The package gives hackers the ability to command and control server communication, mail communication as well as manual control on other server wide or installation wide settings. A report released by Fox-IT states that CryptoPHP is primarily being...Read More
Pundits have made it sound easy to set up and operate WordPress blogs. So much so that law firm technology professionals are now assuming known and unknown risks by running multiple blogs with tens or hundreds of lawyer authors being read by a sophisticated audience. But operating WordPress sites does have risks. Jeffrey Roman (@gen_sec),...Read More
A Finnish IT company has uncovered a bug in WordPress 3 sites that could be used to launch a wide variety of malicious script-based attacks on site visitors’ browsers. Based on current WordPress usage statistics, the vulnerability could affect up to 86 percent of existing WordPress-powered sites. The vulnerability, discovered by Jouko Pynnonen of Klikki...Read More
Remote control for virtualized desktops An estimated 86 per cent of WordPress websites harbour a dangerous cross-site scripting (XSS) hole in the popular comment system plugin, in what researcher Jouk Pynnonen calls the most serious flaw in five years. The bug could provide a pathway for attacking visitors’ machines. The WP-Statistics plugin lets attackers inject...Read More
The content management and blogging system automatically updates users for cross-site scripting, request forgery and password-reset-attack protection. Millions of open-source WordPress site owners received email notifications over the last 24 hours advising them of a site update. The new WordPress 4.0.1 update provides multiple security fixes and data-hardening improvements to help secure WordPress sites. The...Read More
“If I had a hammer, I’d hammer in the morning!†You may be too young to remember this song, and I am not sure if there has been a remake of the 60’s hit by Peter, Paul Mary. It was a song written by Pete Seeger that spoke of revolution and change a coming. Websites...Read More
By Kaya Ismail November 17, 2014  Comments WordPress 4.1 is on the horizon. The first beta will give us a taste of the latest features soon to be added to the most popular CMS on earth (Yes, WordPress is a CMS). The most recent major release, WordPress 4.0 Benny, introduced a number of handy features, including...Read More
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