As mentioned in this post, Matt will host a livestream on February 22 during Bangkok daylight hours. He opened an invitation to any speaker who was affected by the cancellation, and the livestream will include the following fine people: Imran Sayed, Md Saif Hassan, Muhammad Muhsin, Nirav Mehta, Piccia Neri, Umar Draz, and Francesca Marano […]
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The ls command is used to list the contents of a directory. Using the flags you can change the format of the output to show the information that you need. If you use just the ls command you get a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Save the Date: May 27
What’s on May 27, you ask? May 27, 2013 is the 10th anniversary of the first WordPress release! We think this is worth celebrating, and we want WordPress fans all over the world to celebrate with us by throwing their own parties. We’re using Meetup Everywhere to coordinate, and will be putting up a website […]
WordPress 3.6 Beta 1
WordPress 3.6 Beta 1 is now available! This is software still in development and we really don’t recommend that you run it on a production site — set up a test site just to play with the new version. To test WordPress 3.6, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you’ll want “bleeding edge nightlies”). Or you can download the beta here (zip). We’ve […]
2012: A Look Back
Another year is coming to a close, and it’s time to look back and reflect on what we’ve accomplished in the past twelve months. The WordPress community is stronger than ever, and some of the accomplishments of the past year are definitely worth remembering. Software Releases We had two major releases of the WordPress web […]
WordPress helpful tricks
WordPress can be a bit finicky at times. I use quite a few different little tricks that I have picked up to help fix some very common problems with wordpress. Do you have any cools tricks that might make someones […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Oct 26) IT was discovered that RTFM, the FAQ manager for Request Tracker, allows authenticated users to create articles in any class. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in [More…]
(Oct 26) Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Request Tracker, an issue tracking system. CVE-2012-4730 [More…]
(Oct 26) Updated firefox packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical [More…]
(Oct 26) Several security issues were fixed in Firefox.
(Oct 26) Several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK.
(Oct 23) cups-pk-helper, a PolicyKit helper to configure cups with fine-grained privileges, wraps CUPS function calls in an insecure way. This could lead to uploading sensitive data to a cups resource, or overwriting specific files with the content of a cups resource. The user would have [More…]
(Oct 23) Several vulnerabilities were found in ViewVC, a web interface for CVS and Subversion repositories. CVE-2009-5024: remote attackers can bypass the cvsdb row_limit [More…]
(Oct 26) It was discovered that Exim, a mail transport agent, is not properly handling the decoding of DNS records for DKIM. Specifically, crafted records can yield to a heap-based buffer overflow. An attacker can exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary code. [More…]
(Oct 26) Exim could be made to run programs if it received specially crafted networktraffic.
(Oct 25) Multiple security vulnerabilities were fixed in WebKit.
(Oct 23) gpernot discovered that Tinyproxy, a HTTP proxy, is vulnerable to a denial of service by remote attackers by sending crafted request headers. [More…]
(Oct 23) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Iceweasel, Debian’s version of the Mozilla Firefox web browser. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: [More…]
(Oct 23) Several security issues were fixed in Python 3.2.
(Oct 24) Several security issues were fixed in Python 3.1.
(Oct 22) Ruby could allow excessive access in untrusted programs.
(Oct 22) Several security issues were fixed in Ruby.
(Oct 20) It was discovered that BIND, a DNS server, hangs while constructing the additional section of a DNS reply, when certain combinations of resource records are present. This vulnerability affects both recursive and authoritative servers. [More…]
(Oct 21) It was discovered that a buffer overflow in libtiff’s parsing of files using PixarLog compression could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. [More…]
(Oct 16) Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having [More…]
(Oct 17) Updated java-1.7.0-openjdk packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having [More…]
(Oct 16) Updated openstack-keystone packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat OpenStack Essex. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having [More…]
(Oct 11) Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.
(Oct 11) Quagga could be made to crash if it received specially crafted networktraffic.
(Oct 18) Updated java-1.7.0-oracle packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical [More…]