security

Javamancy Upgraded III

September 13, 2008 at 2:56 AM

in Operations

Javamancy has completed the upgrade to WordPress 2.6.2. Thanks for being patient with us. A lot of you fellow bloggers have been upgrading your WordPress blogs as well, so hopefully it’s been relatively uneventful for you as well. Given the security bug fixes introduced in the 2.6.2 version, this was an important upgrade. We’ll be [...]

As reported by the WordPress folks themselves, they’ve released version 2.6.2 of their product, which provides a series of security and bug fixes. Topping the list of key liabilities are reported by Stefan Esser: SQL column truncation vulnerabilities found in MySQL mt_rand() and mt_srand() predictability vulnerabilities In addition to the two items listed above are [...]

“What?!? My WordPress got hacked?!?” Surprising as it sounds, there are still a lot of WordPress blogs that have not been updated to version 2.5.1, purported to be the current stable version. Often, it is due to technical reasons (e.g., plugins or themes that do not work with the newer versions) or “I don’t have [...]

As reported by the WordPress folks themselves, they’ve released version 2.5.1 of their product, which provides a series of security and bug fixes. Javamancy.com will be upgrading to this latest version once it has completed our CM procedures. Thanks for being patient, folks! Until then, version 2.5 will be in circulation for a short while [...]