WordPress 3.7 Beta 2 is now available for download and testing. This is software still in development, so we don’t recommend that you run it on a production site. This has been a quiet beta period. We’re hoping to get some more testers for automatic background updates, which will occur for security and minor releases (like updating […]
Phishing sites hosted in the cloud are providing fraudsters with the benefits of high availability and good performance. Additionally, some cloud-hosted phishing sites are using “flexible” SSL to boost their credibility, even though the data submitted by the victim may not actually be encrypted for the whole length of its journey.
At the start of the first US Government shutdown since 1996, an SSL certificate used on barackobama.com has expired. Issued by Go Daddy in September 2012, the SSL certificate for *.barackobama.com and barackobama.com was used by Organizing for Action, a non-profit grassroots organisation aligned with Obama’s political policies. Whilst not directly associated with the US […]
I’m pleased to announce the availability of WordPress 3.7 Beta 1. For WordPress 3.7 we decided to shorten the development cycle and focus on a few key improvements. We plan to release the final product in October, and then follow it in December with a jam-packed WordPress 3.8 release, which is already in development. Some […]
SUMMARY Three CVEs were reported for WordPress 3.6 and WordPress has released an upgraded version to address theses vulnerabilities. cPanel has updated the WordPress version delivered via the cPAddons functionality in WHM to the new version of 3.6.1. AFFECTED VERSIONS All versions of WordPress 3.6.0 and below. SECURITY RATING US-CERT/NIST …
Extended Validation, or EV, certificates are designed to provide evidence of a greater level of verification by the Certificate Authority of the legal identity of the company in control of the SSL certificate and domain name. By way of contrast, the most common type of certificate, domain-validated, only requires the CA to verify control of […]
SSL Certificate Authorities (CAs) are responsible for issuing the SSL certificates which are used to protect billions of secure transactions across the internet against eavesdroppers and impersonators. The CA/B forum — a group of CAs and browser vendors — drew up the Baseline Requirements in 2011 outlining a set of minimum standards to which all […]
After nearly 7 million downloads of WordPress 3.6, we are pleased to announce the availability of version 3.6.1. This maintenance release fixes 13 bugs in version 3.6, which was a very smooth release. WordPress 3.6.1 is also a security release for all previous WordPress versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately. […]
Netcraft has added a Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) indicator to the Netcraft Extension for Firefox, Chrome and Opera. This lets users see which websites would allow encrypted traffic to be decrypted en mass at a later date if the site’s private key were to be compromised — a danger previously highlighted by Netcraft in June. PFS, […]
Network Solutions allowed a fraudster to register a deceptive domain name earlier this week: secure-chaseonline.com. Network Solutions also issued a valid SSL certificate for the domain, which was used for a phishing attack which targeted customers of Chase Bank. Phishing attack targeting Chase bank on secure-chaseonline.com The phishing site added further credibility to the attack by using […]
When the African nation of Mali announced that it was going to provide free .ml domains from July, their goal was to put Mali back on the map. It appears they have now succeeded, but perhaps not in the way they had intended — thanks to the free domains, Mali now has the most phishy […]
TSR-2013-0009 Announcement cPanel has released new builds for all public update tiers. These updates provide targeted changes to address security concerns with the cPanel & WHM product. These builds are currently available to all customers via the standard update system. cPanel has rated these updates as having security impact levels …
SUMMARY The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.4.19 and PHP 5.5.3. These releases fix a bug in the patch for CVE-2013-4248 in the OpenSSL module and a compile failure with ZTS enabled in PHP 5.4. All PHP users are encouraged to upgrade to either PHP 5.5.3 …
SUMMARY The PHP development team has announced the immediate availability of PHP 5.5.2. This release contains approximately 20 bug fixes, including a security issue in the OpenSSL module (CVE-2013-4248) and a session fixation problem (CVE-2011-4718). All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to this release. cPanel has released EasyApache …
SUMMARY The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.4.18. About 30 bugs were fixed, including security issues CVE-2013-4113 and CVE-2013-4248. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to this release. cPanel has released EasyApache 3.22.5 with this updated version of PHP 5.4.18 to address this issue. …
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SUMMARY The Apache HTTPD Server Project have released httpd-2.2.25 and httpd-2.4.6 to correct multiple vulnerabilities that were issues CVE’s. Apache HTTP Server 2.2.25 CVE-2013-1896 mod_dav: Sending a MERGE request against a URI handled by mod_dav_svn with the source href (sent as part of the request body as XML) pointing to …
The second release candidate for WordPress 3.6 is now available for download and testing. We’re down to only a few remaining issues, and the final release should be available in a matter of days. In RC2, we’ve tightened up some aspects of revisions, autosave, and the media player, and fixed some bugs that were spotted […]
SUMMARY Mod_Security was found to have a Remote Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability that could cause it to crash. SECURITY RATING The cPanel Security Team has rated this update has having moderate security impact. Information on security ratings is available at: http://go.cpanel.net/securitylevels. DETAIL CVE-2013-2765 states: “When forceRequestBodyVariable action is triggered and …
Certificate revocation checking is an essential part of any connection to an SSL site; without it, an attacker can impersonate an SSL site with a compromised certificate until it expires of its own accord — an event which may be 5 years away — even if the issuer of the certificate (the certificate authority, or […]
cPanel has released new builds for all public update tiers. These updates provide targeted changes to address security concerns with the cPanel & WHM product. These builds are currently available to all customers via the standard update system. cPanel has rated these updates as having security impact levels ranging from …
The first release candidate for WordPress 3.6 is now available. We hope to ship WordPress 3.6 in a couple weeks. But to do that, we really need your help! If you haven’t tested 3.6 yet, there’s no time like the present. (But please: not on a live production site, unless you’re feeling especially adventurous.) Think […]
It’s time for our third annual user and developer survey! If you’re a WordPress user, developer, or business, we want your feedback. Just like previous years, we’ll share the data at the upcoming WordCamp San Francisco (WCSF). Results will also be sent to each survey respondent. It only takes a few minutes to fill out […]
Important: cPanel Security Disclosure TSR-2013-0007 The following disclosure covers the Targeted Security Release 2013-06-26. Each vulnerability is assigned an internal case number which is reflected below. Information regarding the cPanel Security Level rankings can be found here:http://go.cpanel.net/securitylevels Case 71193 Summary Local cPanel users are able to take over ownership of …
Millions of websites and billions of people rely on SSL to protect the transmission of sensitive information such as passwords, credit card details, and personal information with the expectation that encryption guarantees privacy. However, recently leaked documents appear to reveal that the NSA, the United States National Security Agency, logs very high volumes of internet […]
WordPress 3.5.2 is now available. This is the second maintenance release of 3.5, fixing 12 bugs. This is a security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately. The WordPress security team resolved seven security issues, and this release also contains some additional security hardening. The security fixes included: […]
Netcraft blocked a Twitter phishing site being served from multiple Facebook Applications on 6th June. Visitors to the Facebook applications were requested to enter their Twitter credentials in order to view a “Twitter Video” application. On submission of the fake twitter login form, the user is redirected to YouTube. Links to the phishing attack were spread […]
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