Exploit

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

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 stop this sort of attack.  Vreugdenhil, a first time Pwn2Own participant, earned a $10,000 prize for his efforts.

The only browser left standing after day one was Google Chrome.

[via ComputerWorld]

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WordPress 2.8.3 Released / Security Update

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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