Nothing’s more refreshing than receiving a notification of a WordPress update the minuted before going to bed. WordPress updates are serious, most of the time. Not updating the blog immediately could leave it open for exploits, and malicious users could do many bad things with that new found power. WordPress 3.01 has been released a [...]

Categories: ghacks, The Web

Yesterday I wrote about how 70,000 users blogs on the WordPress owned service, Blogetry, were mysteriously shut down by a “law enforcement agency”. Now more details have emerged and the BBC have reported that it was indeed the FBI who ordered the services’ closure because of a “link to terrorist material” and an al-Qaeda hit [...]

Categories: Misc

The WordPress blogging service bloggetry, which is used by roughly 70,000 people, has been mysteriously shut down  with no warning and no explanation according to ReadWriteWeb.  BurstNET, the host of the service said it was suspended at the request of an unidentified law enforcement agency. “(Blogetery) was terminated by request of law enforcement officials, due [...]

Categories: The Web

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. One of the major changes in WordPress 3.0 is the merging with WordPress MU, the multi-user version, that was offered only [...]

Categories: The Web

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

In order to improve connection times for users from all over the world, Ghacks enabled a content delivery network (CDN) yesterday. A CDN basically stores files and information on mirror servers all around the world in order to serve data to users from locations closest to them. This speeds up the connection process noticeably. In [...]

Categories: ghacks, The Web

Reports about a WordPress hack affecting self-hosted WordPress blogs have appeared on the Internet in March. The hack seems to affect WordPress 2.9.2, the latest version of the blogging platform. To make matters worse there seem to be two – possibly unrelated – issues that webmasters experience. One is a malware attack that is spreading [...]

Categories: The Web

Jojo just mailed me an interesting article about a blog that discovered that its trackbacks, the links pointing to their articles from other blogs, increased practically overnight to three or four times the standard amount. We to have seen an increase in trackbacks coming from totally unrelated Internet sites which is one of the main [...]

Categories: ghacks, The Web

Notifiers can improve the workflow of a computer user. They are usually desktop applications or web browser plugins that display a notification if the service that they monitor is updated. This can be a new email in the Gmail account, a Facebook status message, a new Buzz in Google Buzz or a new comment in [...]

Categories: Software, Windows