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WordPress Cookie Integrity Protection Privilege Escalation Vulnerabili…
FrSIRT – Apr 28, 2008
This issue is caused by an error in the MAC calculation procedure when handling the “USERNAME” and “EXPIRY_TIME” parameters contained in the authentication cookie which could be exploited by attackers to gain unauthorized administrative access (and execute arbitrary PHP code) by creating an account with a specially crafted username. Note: An unspecified cross site scripting issue has also been reported. Credits Vulnerabilities reported by Steven J. Murdoch and Alex Concha.
@ EconSM: Grown-Up Start-Ups: Profitability Is A Choice; Take Time To…
CBS News – Apr 29, 2008
Palms went up from half the panel – Wordpress maker Automattic’s CE Toni Schneider and SocialMedia Networks CE Seth Goldstein. "Nice!" said Gold… Palms went up from half the panel – Wordpress maker Automattic’s CE Toni Schneider and SocialMedia Networks CE Seth Goldstein. But how did these new companies do it so quick?– A rolling start: Schneider whose company had written the Wordpress open-source software before launching a parallel commercial venture supporting blogs like New York Times’: “We were lucky in a way – we already had a lot of momentum (from the downloadable Wordpress). We were able to come in and be immediately profitable offering services to large businesses where they wanted a commercial entity to hold their hand a bit. com co-founder Keith Richman: “Profitability is at this point a choice of how much we choose to invest in the business. The real investment is just new sales people.
How to do everything faster
InfoWorld – Apr 28, 2008
You probably already know that RSS news feeds offer a convenient way to get all the news you want delivered straight to your PC. You can make RSS feeds even more efficient. If you prefer reading in a browser I recommend Google Reader which lets you surf through the headlines. A number of free services can send you RSS feeds over e-mail. My favorite is SendMeRSS. com which is so easy that you don’t even have to register with the site although doing so will make adding feeds simpler. Just enter the URL for the RSS feed you want type in your e-mail address and click Feed.