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Wordpress.org Warns of Active Worm Hacking Blogs 103

Erik writes "Wordpress, the popular open-source Content Management System (CMS) for many thousands of bloggers worldwide, is under attack from a 'clever' worm that automatically compromises unpatched versions of the Wordpress system. The particularly nasty bug crawls the web for vulnerable Wordpress installations, installing malware, deleting content, and generally wreaking havoc wherever it can. Today, Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg eloquently implored Wordpress bloggers to update more frequently. Originally, updating the Wordpress system was a rather laborious process; however, newer versions offer fast and simple one-click upgrades. The two most recent versions of Wordpress (2.8.3 and 2.8.4) cannot be attacked by the worm discovered this week, and blogs hosted at Wordpress.com are also apparently immune."

Comment Re:And the UNIX philosophy is... (Score 4, Informative) 318

what the fuck does OS X have to do with any of this? This was a conversation about browsers, i'm sure uzbl can run on OS X just as well as on Linux. Jesus you Mac tards are fucking assholes who just jump at the fucking chance to jam your feng shui tonka toys down peoples throats whenever you're not sipping on a fucking latte.

Comment Re:"The Unix Philosophy" (Score 4, Insightful) 318

it has been my experience that everything regarding steep learning curves in *nix, ends up revealing benefits those who never try will never know of. Try explaining to the average windows user how vim is better than notepad vs watching someone learn vim and having their face light up everytime they figure out they can do something very quickly that's impossible in a standard text editor
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Submission + - Meet UZBL: A web browser with the Unix Philosophy (uzbl.org)

DigDuality writes: Dieter@be over at Arch Linux forums and a release engineer for Arch Linux got inspired by this post. The idea? To create a browser based on the Unix Philosophy: "Write programs that do one thing and do it well, programs that work well together, programs to handle text streams because that is a universal interface", among other points. The result? A low resource fast browser named Uzbl, based off WebKit and passes the Acid3 Test with a perfect score. The browser is controlled (by default) by vim-like keybindings, not too dissimilar from vimperator for Firefox. Things like url changing, loading/saving of bookmarks, saving history, downloads, are handled through external scripts that you write (though the uzbl software does come with some nice scripts for you to use). It fits great in a tiling window manager and plays extremely well with dmenu. The learning curve is a bit steep, but once you get use it to, it's smooth sailing. Not bad for alpha software. Thought built for Arch it has been reporting to work on Ubuntu.

Comment Re:Personally, I couldn't care less. (Score 5, Insightful) 408

i'm not so much concerned about what money who makes from what as I am as extensions, without ample notification, acting as malware against other software/extensions i have installed in order to make a buck. I moved to linux long ago b/c i was tired of having to run scans once a week. I switch to FF b/c i prefered a more secure browser (made even more secure by extensions). Now basically, this guy, has managed to get malware in both firefox and linux. Seriously, total douchebag move.

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