About a week after the push to version 3.2 comes the next WordPress update. Updates that follow quickly after a major release are usually either security or bug related. According to WordPress, version 3.2.1 is a maintenance release that fixes a server incompatibility related to JSON, and a few other issues that came up after [...]

Categories: Web Development

It seems that the WordPress developers have a thing for releasing a new version of WordPress shortly before I’m going to bed. Whenever they do it means that I have to stay away to find out if it fixes security vulnerabilities. If it does, I update all of my blogs immediately. Instead of going to [...]

Categories: Web Development

An update for the popular blogging software WordPress was just released. The developers classify the update as a security update, it appears however that it fixes no zero day vulnerability. The WordPress blog lists the following security enhancements and fixes in WordPress 3.1.3. Various security hardening Taxonomy query hardening Prevent sniffing out user names of [...]

Categories: Security

An update to the popular WordPress blogging platform has just been released. The announcement should appear in the admin interface of the WordPress blog. If it does not check the Updates entry on the left sidebar of the admin menu. According to the developers, WordPress 3.0.5 is a ” security hardening update for all previous [...]

Categories: Software, The Web

An update to the popular blogging platform WordPress has just been released that fixes a critical security vulnerability in the software. WordPress 3.0.4 is already available for download at the official website and through the updating options on installed WordPress blogs. The update is currently not announced on the frontpage of the admin interface which [...]

Categories: Security

Why is it that WordPress updates are always released the minute before I want to go to bed? WordPress has just released a new update that brings the version of their popular blogging platform to 3.03. The update is a security update which makes it a mandatory update for all WordPress webmasters hosting blogs on [...]

Categories: The Web

The WordPress developers have just released a security update to the popular blogging platform. WordPress admins should see the update notification in the admin interface. To install the WordPress update they can either download it manually from the WordPress website, upload it to their ftp and perform the necessary steps to update the platform or [...]

Categories: Security

WordPress, like any other popular script or online service, is heavily targeted by malicious users who try to get access to it to use the high-jacked blogs or services to execute malicious activities. This includes spamming ads to the blog’s visitors or placing links to their sites on the blog’s pages. WordPress administrators can improve [...]

Categories: Security, The Web

The WordPress developers have just released a security update for their blogging platform WordPress which raises the version of the software to 2.8.6. It is always recommended to update to a new version of WordPress as soon as possible and especially so for a security release. This release fixes two vulnerabilities that are only relevant [...]

Categories: The Web