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Apple hires jailbreaking iPhone hacker Nicholas Allegra

26

Aug

2011

Nicholas Allegra, better known as ‘comex’, the creator of the JailBreakMe website which made it child’s play for iPhone owners to jailbreak their devices, has been given an internship at Apple. The 19-year-old from Chappaqua, New York posted the news of his new position on Twitter: Allegra has given Apple plenty of headaches in the […]

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Mass infection of WordPress sites ( counter-wordpress.com )

23

Aug

2011

Many people are asking us about this “counter-wordpress.com” type of malware, so we will post some details here. Our scanner has been identifying it for a while, so if you think your site is compromised, just check it in there. So first, to make things clear, this is happening on sites with the vulnerable timthumb.php […]

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TimThumb.php Vulnerability Not Only Affecting Themes – Plugins too (vslider)

17

Aug

2011

The Timthumb.php vulnerability is being used in the wild to hack and infect thousands of WordPress sites. Hopefully everyone is checking their themes and updating the script to make sure it is not vulnerable. This is wishful thinking. Unfortunately, the issue is not limited to themes alone. There are some plugins that include the TimThumb.php […]

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