noxay - Slashdot User

Comment Re:How could you protect against this? (Score 1) 173

by noxay on Friday May 22, 2015 @12:50PM (#49752253) Attached to: Adult Dating Site Hack Reveals Users' Sexual Preference, Extramarital Affairs

Its not always the difficulty standing in the way, sometimes its the money. The set up you are talking about is significantly more costly than a shared host with attached database. Granted a site like "Adult Friend Finder" probably has the cash to cover this, but not all sites that deal with eCommerce or saving user data have the funds for this.

Comment Re:qwerty? (Score 1) 108

by noxay on Thursday May 21, 2015 @01:14PM (#49744763) Attached to: Asus ZenFone 2 Performance Sneak Peek With Intel Z3580 Inside

I have been holding out with my Droid 4 Global for years now just to keep the slide out keyboard. 100 more missed calls and I may give in and get an on screen keyboard.

Submission + - Popular Wordpress Plugin Leaves Sensitive Data in the Open (securityledger.com)

Submitted by

chicksdaddy

on Wednesday December 26, 2012 @05:05PM

chicksdaddy writes: "A security researcher is warning WordPress uses that a popular plugin may leave sensitive information from their blog accessible from the public Internet with little more than a Google search.

The researcher, Jason A. Donenfeld, who uses the handle “zx2c4” posted a notice about the add-on, W3 Total Cache on the Full Disclosure security mailing list on Sunday, warning that many WordPress blogs that had added the plugin had directories of cached content that could be browsed by anyone with a web browser and the knowledge of where to look. The content of those directories could be downloaded, including directories containing sensitive data like password hashes, Donenfeld wrote.

W3 Total Cache is described as a “performance framework” that speeds up web sites that use the WordPress content management system by caching site content, speeding up page loads, downloads and the like. The plugin has been downloaded 1.39 million times and is used by sites including mashable.com and smashingmagazine.com, according to the WordPress web site."

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