More than 1,000 WordPress blogs have been modified to redirect visitors to sites serving malware, affiliate and pay-per-click redirectors, and low quality PPC search result aggregators, through the WordPress’ automatic update feature. The discovery was made by Denis Sinegubko, the founder of the helpful Unmask Parasites website, who points out the irony of webmasters trying...Read More
While I am still waiting for a native WordPress app for the PlayBook the Android port is working well. The Automattic team announce on their BlackBerry blog that v2.1 of WordPress for PlayBook has been rolled into App World. This version brings loads of improvements including: Comment editing: tap the new ‘Edit’ button when viewing...Read More
Mobile versions of social networks and websites hosted using WordPress were two of the major targets for malware in the past quarter, a report from AVG reveals, while small businesses are being warned to crack down and keep their systems safe. The warning comes during a big month for malware, after an infection spread across...Read More
The source of the Apple Mac Flashback Trojan was probably a large clutch of compromised US-based WordPress blog websites hijacked to push visitors to malware hosts, Kaspersky Lab research has revealed. As has previously been established by various sources, between September 2011 and February of this year, the malware was distributed using social engineering attacks...Read More
April 23, 2012, 12:32 PM — The WordPress development team released WordPress 3.3.2 on Friday in order to address several vulnerabilities in the popular blogging platform as well as in three external libraries that are bundled with it by default. The new WordPress version updates the bundled Plupload library to version 1.5.4 after its developers...Read More
 For many of us, the “Like†button is mostly associated with Facebook but two years ago WordPress.com decided to take the plunge and launched its own “Like†button system. The button effectively allowed readers to like a post that they are interested in and the reader’s “gravatar†(Globally Recognized Avatar) would subsequently be added...Read More
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The Flashback malware that eventually infected more than 600,000 Macs worldwide probably started from tens of thousands of WordPress blog sites that had been hacked into and compromised, according to researchers at Kaspersky Lab. In March, the malware creators changed the way they wanted the Flashback exploit to spread, moving it from a Trojan horse...Read More
April 14, 2012, 7:20 AM — According to usability guru Jakob Nielsen, when someone visits your website, you have 10 seconds to capture their attention before they decide to move on. Having a fresh slide show lets you combine images, animations, and bold typography to catch a visitor’s eye and get them to click deeper...Read More
IDG News Service – Despite a growing list of alternatives, WordPress continues to be the most popular blogging platform among the world’s most popular blogs, a study has found. WordPress is used by 49 of the world’s 100 most popular blogs, according to a survey posted Tuesday by Pingdom, a company that offers a service...Read More
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