Reuters hack was due to old WordPress version

Mark Jaquith, a lead developer of the WordPress core and a member of the WordPress security team, has shared with the WSJ that instead of the current version (3.4.1) Reuters was using version 3.1.1 of the popular blogging software – an iteration with a …Find out more from Help Net Security



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Reuters’s Twitter, WordPress accounts hacked by apparent pro-Syrian …

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Reuters blog platform may still be out of date despite hack

Following a tweet Tuesday by security blogger Brian Krebs, SCMagazine.com analyzed the HTML source code on the Reuters blog site and found a line in the header section indicating the page was generated using WordPress version 3.1.1. WordPress …Find out more from SC Magazine (blog)

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False Syria Reports: Reuters was running outdated WordPress

WordPress logo Last Friday, the journalist’s blog from Reuters began publishing false reports of the situation in Syria. The false reports were publishable because the British news agency was using an outdated version of WordPress which contained a number …Find out more from The H

Hide Welcome Panel for WordPress Multisite

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Reuters’ blog hacked and Twitter hijacked

The Flashback trojan, which infected more Macs than any other malware in history, used hacked WordPress sites to get onto machines, according to Kaspersky Lab researcher Vicente Diaz. WordPress 3.3 has XSS vulnerability, say Indian researchers …Find out more from Infosecurity Magazine

LinkedIn unloads upgraded API to expand sharing power

Some of the developer partners getting involved and might have a heavier presence on LinkedIn soon include WordPress, Evernote, and Flipboard, among others. The primary way more sharing is going to be done is with LinkedIn’s upgraded share API, …Find out more from CNET

Reuters hacked

He said that it was plausible the attackers gained access through one of the known vulnerabilities associated with version 3.1.1 of WordPress, and then reused the credentials they gained to hack Reuters’ Twitter account. “We see so many breaches resulting …Find out more from Fudzilla

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