A quick follow-up to our Attack Page Mishap earlier this month. We have discovered the compromise was not with WordPress or the WP Backup Plugin, but instead with the ZenPhoto application. I use Zen Photo for the gallery on my elguru.me site. ZenPhoto released an update on 11/11/11 (a couple days after the attack). Unfortunately, unless I am actually in the admin panel there is no way to know if there is an update. However, they do have a feed on their site I was able to subscribe to that is used for updates.The attack itself was not directly caused…
November 22, 2011
Read More
…The scam, which tries to install a malicious .exe file onto a computer, claims that the new Facebook optimized version of Firefox is faster and easier to use… “ More Computeractive – News Go get it.
In the Replace Firefox Default Favicon post we mentioned a couple User Scripts by Rob64Rock that allowed you to replace the new (and unimproved) default Favicon (now a dashed square) for pages and bookmark that did not have a Favicon. This past weekend I received an email asking if was possible to use the Aurora or Nightly logo with the Firefox Branding Logo as Favicon script on Firefox 8. I contacted Rob64Rock and he sent me the link to scripts he has created which will use the Aurora or Nightly logo as the default Favicon regardless of which version of…