Tag: security
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Huge Vulnerability in WordPress 4.8
Anthony Ferrara discovered a significant security vulnerability and an even more fundamental security flaw in WordPress. The correct fix is to ditch this whole prepare mechanism (which returns a string SQL query). Do what basically everyone else does and return a statement/query object or execute the query directly. That way you can’t double-prepare a string.…
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Facebook Security Force
A neat little tidbit about Facebook security in this post from The Verge. Good Guy Facebook proactively scans lists of hijacked account and warns users if they appear on one of these lists. Facebook cross references credential dumps with its entire database of user credentials, then alerts any users that match to change their passwords.…
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How To: Hack Into OS X Lion
Yesterday one of two things happened, either a) I completely an entirely forgot my OS X login password or b) OS X refused to accept my password. I have no way of knowing which was the case, but regardless, I was unable to access my computer. I almost had a major meltdown, until Google informed…