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OK, so it’s not quite the Presidential Elections currently taking the USA by storm, but over on HotBloggerCalendar they’re running an election of their own to find the top 12 male and female bloggers out there, the prize being a photoshoot and glamorous (infamous?) page in one of their calendars due out later this year.
Being [...]

Back in November last year (how time flies!) I posted about a Wordpress plug-in (Wordpress Automatic Upgrades) which saves so much time and energy when updating to the latest and greatest Wordpress. Well, I updated to the new 2.6.1 today using that utility, and noticed that the VPS is beginning to have a hard time [...]

I thought these villains had been quiet for too long and then, last night, I happened to notice a support ticket in our queue from a customer claiming that we had hijacked his site, or the server it was on. The ticket had already been pushed up the line to one of our senior techs [...]

Project: Joomla!
SubProject: com_user
Severity: Critical
Versions: 1.5.5 and all previous 1.5 releases
Exploit type: Password Reset Forgery
Reported Date: 2008-August-12
Fixed Date: 2008-August-12
Description
A flaw in the reset token validation mechanism allows for non-validating tokens to be forged. This will allow an unauthenticated, unauthorized user to reset the password of the first enabled user (lowest id). Typically, this is an administrator [...]

Sent to me by a friend …
For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives, read on.
At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated:
‘If GM had kept up with technology like the computer [...]

Yesterday saw the last ever update to PHP4 – Today it became history, or “end of life” as it’s known in the vernacular.
It’s been a ball, but it will not surprise me to read in months to come of those who suddenly discover that it’s gone and kick up a stink.
You do know that PHP6 [...]