As promised, today I begin an open-ended series on WordPress plugin security. How do you know what is secure? What tell tale signs might there be? How to train an untrained eye on code? But before we begin, we must establish a premise.
There are many kinds of security vulnerabilities. The most common vulnerabilities today lie [...]
For more than a week now, I have been aware of a very serious security flaw in a popular WordPress plugin. When a security flaw is discovered, there are a number of steps that must be taken to defend against a malicious hacker exploiting the flaw.
Secure affected sites against such an attack.
Notify software developer of [...]
Every so often in open source circles, the issue of the GPL (General Public License) comes up. Most open source projects are released under this license as it allows for the freedom of open source and freely distributed source code, with the adequate protections of law.
Essentially, the GPL says that by recieving a GPL [...]
I’ve been writing code for the past 6 years. In certain areas (PHP, MySQL), I consider myself beyond proficient and more in line with “fluent”. Other areas I have no real experience: Ruby on Rails, .NET, Java.
For most of those 6 years, I’ve freelanced with the thought that if I could jusst generate [...]
For the past month, I’ve been dilligently working on a project for b5media which would organize and make possible complete automation of payments to bloggers, report generation and even the management of blogs, bloggers assigned to blogs, and channel editor management.
I’m pretty happy because I’m pretty much done with the alpha phase of this project. [...]
