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Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Just-released WordPress 0day makes it easy to hijack millions of websites [Updated] | A... - 0 views

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    "Update: About two hours after this post went live, WordPress released a critical security update that fixes the 0day vulnerability described below. The WordPress content management system used by millions of websites is vulnerable to two newly discovered threats that allow attackers to take full control of the Web server. Attack code has been released that targets one of the latest versions of WordPress, making it a zero-day exploit that could touch off a series of site hijackings throughout the Internet."
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    "Update: About two hours after this post went live, WordPress released a critical security update that fixes the 0day vulnerability described below. The WordPress content management system used by millions of websites is vulnerable to two newly discovered threats that allow attackers to take full control of the Web server. Attack code has been released that targets one of the latest versions of WordPress, making it a zero-day exploit that could touch off a series of site hijackings throughout the Internet."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Wordpress.com - Is Wordpress Down Right Now? - 0 views

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    " wordpress.com screenshot WordpressWebsite Name: wordpress.comURL Checked: 7.22 ms.Response Time: More than a week agoLast Down: UP Wordpress.com is UP and reachable. The website is probably down just for you..."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Export - Support - WordPress.com (Backup) - 0 views

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    "Export Your Content to Another Blog or Platform It's your content; you can do whatever you like with it. Go to Tools -> Export in your WordPress.com dashboard to download an XML file of your blog's content. This format, which we call WordPress eXtended RSS or WXR, will contain your posts, pages, comments, categories, and tags."
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    "Export Your Content to Another Blog or Platform It's your content; you can do whatever you like with it. Go to Tools -> Export in your WordPress.com dashboard to download an XML file of your blog's content. This format, which we call WordPress eXtended RSS or WXR, will contain your posts, pages, comments, categories, and tags."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

WordPress › Online Backup for WordPress « WordPress Plugins - 0 views

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    "Backup Technology's free Online Backup plugin provides protection for WordPress sites and their data. With the vast amount of time and investment that goes into running a blog or website, it is essential that a simple system is available for backing up."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

WordPress 4.3.1 actualización de seguridad importante - 0 views

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    "La plataforma abierta WordPress ahora lanza la versión WordPress 4.3.1, una actualización de seguridad para este sistema de gestión de contenidos CMS sobre el que se sostienen numerosos blogs. Para los usuarios de este sistema, es importante actualizar cualquier versión anterior a esta nueva, ya que soluciona tres problemas de seguridad."
ravi_chauhan

What Does Wordpress 3.0 Mean For Blogger? - 3 views

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    The popular blogging platform WordPress has been updated to version 3.0. WordPress 3.0 contains more than 1200 bug fixes and enhancements including a new default theme and a redesigned admin area with lighter colors.
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

WordPress Wins $25,000 From DMCA Takedown Abuser | TorrentFreak [# !! NoteS] - 1 views

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      # ! More "#copyrigt #ebnforcement" to #stifle #Freedom of Expression...
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      # ! ... another #Backfire to the #IntellectualProperty abuses...
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    [WordPress has scored an important victory in court against a man who abused the DMCA to censor an article of a critical journalist. The court agreed that the takedown request was illegitimate and awarded WordPress roughly $25,000 in damages and attorneys fees. ...]
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

WordPress now powers 25% of the Web | VentureBeat | Apps | by Emil Protalinski - 1 views

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    "One in four websites is now powered by WordPress. Today is a big day for the free and open-source content management system (CMS). To be perfectly clear, the milestone figure doesn't represent a fraction of all websites that have a CMS: WordPress now powers 25 percent of the Web."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

WordPress 4.4.1 Updates for XSS (and 52 other issues) - InternetNews. [# ! Note] - 0 views

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    "January 07, 2016 The first WordPress update of 2016 is out and like many other incremental updates, it is being triggered by a security vulnerability. The single security issue being patched in WordPress 4.4.1 is a cross site scripting vulnerability that could have potentially enabled a site compromised."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

11 medidas para optimizar WordPress. ¡Pisa el acelerador! | Blog de Host Europe - 0 views

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    "¿Sabías que una fracción de 0,001 segundos en el tiempo de carga adicional de la web de Amazon supone una pérdida de un 1% de sus ventas? (Fuente: Greg Linden, Amazon). A todos nos ha pasado, hemos entrado en una página y como tardaba tanto en cargar, la hemos cerrado sin pensarlo. Entonces, si no quieres que tus usuarios se sientan frustrados y abandonen tu página antes de encontrar lo que buscan, puedes tomar nota de estas 11 medidas para optimizar WordPress y mejorar el tiempo de carga de tu web."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

WordPress Demands $10,000 For DMCA Takedown Censorship | TorrentFreak - 1 views

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    "Hotham wrote an article about "Straight Pride UK" which included a comment he received from the organization's press officer Nick Steiner. The latter didn't like the article Hotham wrote, and after publication Steiner sent WordPress a takedown notice claiming it was infringing on his copyrights."
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    "Hotham wrote an article about "Straight Pride UK" which included a comment he received from the organization's press officer Nick Steiner. The latter didn't like the article Hotham wrote, and after publication Steiner sent WordPress a takedown notice claiming it was infringing on his copyrights."
Gary Edwards

WordPress › GroupDocs Word,Excel,Powerpoint,PDF Viewer « WordPress Plugins - 0 views

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    "GroupDocs Viewer is an online document viewer that lets you read documents in your browser, regardless of whether you have the software that they were created in. You can view many types to word processing documents (DOC, DOCX, TXT, RTF, ODT), presentations (PPT, PPTX), spreadsheets (XLS, XLSX), portable files (PDF), and image files (JPG, BMP, GIF, TIFF). For each file, you get a high-fidelity rendering, showing the document just as it would if you opened it in the software it was created in. Layout and formatting is retained and you see an exact copy of the original. GroupDocs Viewer lets you really read the document. You can search text documents, copy text and even embed the document - GroupDocs Viewer and all - in a web page. You can print or download the file from GroupDocs Viewer if you need to work with it offline."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

FBI Warns That WordPress Faces Terrorist Attack Risk - 0 views

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      # ! " Terrorists Attacks" that threaten The W@rld with... # ! DEFACED BLOGS... Oh My! it's a 'real danger'. # ! :D # ! Please stop seeding fear and mistrust # ! of every@ne towards everybody... # ! ... as stop discrediting every social empowerment, # ! as already did with, for example, with P2P networks... (Seriously: Where Is The Link Between Copyright Infringement And Terrorism/Organized Crime | by Mike Masnick | Fri, Jan 29th 2010 7:39pm https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100129/0630057974.shtml) ( # ! And The #Press, so prideful to spreading all this #nonsense... # ! :/ )
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    [The Federal Bureau of Investigation issued an alert on April 7 about the potential danger of Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists abusing vulnerabilities in the open-source WordPress blog and content management system software.]
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Wix gets caught "stealing" GPL code from WordPress | Ars Technica UK [# ! Note] - 0 views

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    "In which Wix forgets what happens when you add GPL code to your closed-source app. Sean Gallagher (US) - Nov 2, 2016 6:10 am UTC"
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

WordPress 4.0 Designed for Improved Security, Usability, Stability - 1 views

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    "Provides user enhancements and tightens SSL security."
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    "rovides user enhancements and tightens SSL security."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Wizzard Technical Design - WordPress Security 2015 Infographic - 1 views

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    [Categories:Types, Instruction manuals Published by: Stuart Walton on Feb 14, 2015 Copyright:Traditional Copyright: All rights reserved]
Mark Wilson

Black Friday - Cyber Monday Exciting $2000 Worth of Giveaway 2016 - 1 views

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    Get $2000 worth giveaway on your PSD to HTML, PSD to Wordpress conversions during BLACK FRIDAY & CYBER MONDAY festive season from Mypsdtohtml.
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    Please do not SPAM this group with advertising. If you persist, you will be banned.
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Company Uses DMCA to Censor and Expose Critical Blogger - TorrentFreak - 0 views

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    " By Ernesto on June 17, 2016 C: 25 News Marketing and sales company Smart Circle is using the DMCA to uncover the identity of a critical blogger. The company obtained a subpoena directed at WordPress, stating that the blogger in question violates their copyrights by publishing modified images of its key employees."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Digital Citizen Study on Ad Sponsored Piracy | MUSIC * TECHNOLOGY * POLICY - 1 views

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Paul Merrell

Why the Sony hack is unlikely to be the work of North Korea. | Marc's Security Ramblings - 0 views

  • Everyone seems to be eager to pin the blame for the Sony hack on North Korea. However, I think it’s unlikely. Here’s why:1. The broken English looks deliberately bad and doesn’t exhibit any of the classic comprehension mistakes you actually expect to see in “Konglish”. i.e it reads to me like an English speaker pretending to be bad at writing English. 2. The fact that the code was written on a PC with Korean locale & language actually makes it less likely to be North Korea. Not least because they don’t speak traditional “Korean” in North Korea, they speak their own dialect and traditional Korean is forbidden. This is one of the key things that has made communication with North Korean refugees difficult. I would find the presence of Chinese far more plausible.
  • 3. It’s clear from the hard-coded paths and passwords in the malware that whoever wrote it had extensive knowledge of Sony’s internal architecture and access to key passwords. While it’s plausible that an attacker could have built up this knowledge over time and then used it to make the malware, Occam’s razor suggests the simpler explanation of an insider. It also fits with the pure revenge tact that this started out as. 4. Whoever did this is in it for revenge. The info and access they had could have easily been used to cash out, yet, instead, they are making every effort to burn Sony down. Just think what they could have done with passwords to all of Sony’s financial accounts? With the competitive intelligence in their business documents? From simple theft, to the sale of intellectual property, or even extortion – the attackers had many ways to become rich. Yet, instead, they chose to dump the data, rendering it useless. Likewise, I find it hard to believe that a “Nation State” which lives by propaganda would be so willing to just throw away such an unprecedented level of access to the beating heart of Hollywood itself.
  • 5. The attackers only latched onto “The Interview” after the media did – the film was never mentioned by GOP right at the start of their campaign. It was only after a few people started speculating in the media that this and the communication from DPRK “might be linked” that suddenly it became linked. I think the attackers both saw this as an opportunity for “lulz” and as a way to misdirect everyone into thinking it was a nation state. After all, if everyone believes it’s a nation state, then the criminal investigation will likely die.
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  • 6. Whoever is doing this is VERY net and social media savvy. That, and the sophistication of the operation, do not match with the profile of DPRK up until now. Grugq did an excellent analysis of this aspect his findings are here – http://0paste.com/6875#md 7. Finally, blaming North Korea is the easy way out for a number of folks, including the security vendors and Sony management who are under the microscope for this. Let’s face it – most of today’s so-called “cutting edge” security defenses are either so specific, or so brittle, that they really don’t offer much meaningful protection against a sophisticated attacker or group of attackers.
  • 8. It probably also suits a number of political agendas to have something that justifies sabre-rattling at North Korea, which is why I’m not that surprised to see politicians starting to point their fingers at the DPRK also. 9. It’s clear from the leaked data that Sony has a culture which doesn’t take security very seriously. From plaintext password files, to using “password” as the password in business critical certificates, through to just the shear volume of aging unclassified yet highly sensitive data left out in the open. This isn’t a simple slip-up or a “weak link in the chain” – this is a serious organization-wide failure to implement anything like a reasonable security architecture.
  • The reality is, as things stand, Sony has little choice but to burn everything down and start again. Every password, every key, every certificate is tainted now and that’s a terrifying place for an organization to find itself. This hack should be used as the definitive lesson in why security matters and just how bad things can get if you don’t take it seriously. 10. Who do I think is behind this? My money is on a disgruntled (possibly ex) employee of Sony.
  • EDIT: This appears (at least in part) to be substantiated by a conversation the Verge had with one of the alleged hackers – http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/25/7281097/sony-pictures-hackers-say-they-want-equality-worked-with-staff-to-break-in Finally for an EXCELLENT blow by blow analysis of the breach and the events that followed, read the following post by my friends from Risk Based Security – https://www.riskbasedsecurity.com/2014/12/a-breakdown-and-analysis-of-the-december-2014-sony-hack EDIT: Also make sure you read my good friend Krypt3ia’s post on the hack – http://krypt3ia.wordpress.com/2014/12/18/sony-hack-winners-and-losers/
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    Seems that the FBI overlooked a few clues before it told Obama to go ahead and declare war against North Korea. 
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