Pwn2Own … IE8, Firefox and Safari (x2) … Hacked on day one.

Written by geekE Management | Published on March 25, 2010
Hackers exploited the 3 major browsers on day one of Pwn2Own.  As expected,  IE8, FireFox and Safari were all penetrated within minutes of the competition starting. Most impressively, Peter Vreugdenhil, was able to exploit a vulnerability in IE8 on Windows 7 allowing him to bypass  the operating systems DEP (Data Execution System) security mechinism designed to [...]
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WordPress 2.8.3 Released / Security Update

Written by Gil Rutkowski | Published on August 3, 2009
Seems a few things were missed back in the 2.8.1 security release, but 2.8.3 is supposed to fix all that. Unfortunately, I missed some places when fixing the privilege escalation issues for 2.8.1.  Luckily, the entire WordPress community has our backs. Download the update or use the autoupdate feature to cure what ales your wordpress.
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