These are some Spam related articles that caught my attention recently. Google Mistakes Own Blog For Spam, Deletes It (via Yahoo News) – Google thought one of its own blogs was a spam blog so turned it over to someone else. Oops. Google does usually send a notification but they say the bloggers “overlooked” it. [...] Read more »
OSX Security Update 2007-007
Apple almost made it through the month of July without an operating system security update which would have been a first for the year. But OS X Security Update 2007-007 was released on the last day of the month. Thirteen components are updated. Click the thumbnail to see the component list or visit the Apple [...] Read more »
WordPress Stats Plugin Vulnerability Plugged
I usually don’t mention WordPress vulnerabilities here, but since I use WordPress and the vulnerable plugin I figured I’d mention it (now that I’m patched). The WordPress Stats plugin by Automattic (Andy Skelton ) had a critical SQL injection vulnerability that could allow admin credentials to be stolen. The vulnerability was patched in version 1.1.1 [...] Read more »
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6 Released
Mozilla has released a security update to Firefox 2, making it the second update this month. Firefox 2.0.0.6 is available through the built-in auto-update feature or as a standalone download. One “critical” and one “moderate” vulnerabilities are patched in this update. The critical update is “Unescaped URIs passed to external programs” which is similar to [...] Read more »
Firefox 2.0.0.5 Released
Mozilla has released Firefox 2.0.0.5 which patches eight security vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update patched eight security vulnerabilities. The previously reported vulnerability where IE would pass a malformed URL which Firefox would then accept is one of the eight patched vulnerabilities. Two other vulnerabilities were rated as “critical” by the Firefox team. A critical rating [...] Read more »