Monthly Archives: July 2009
Twitter Correcting Follower and Following Counts
If you noticed a significant drop in your twitter followers then you are not alone. Twitter announced that it pushed out an update to fix the follower and following counts which have been inconsistent for some time Continue reading
100,000 Google Wave Invites To Go Out September 30
Google Wave was announced at Google I/O 2009 in May at San Francisco. All developers attending Google I/O were given access to a developer sandbox for Google Wave and everyone left out had been campaigning for an account. Today, at … Continue reading
WordPress 2.8.2 Fixes XSS Vulnerability
WordPress 2.8.2 was released on Monday, July 20 which patches a known XSS vulnerability. The URLs for the commenters(comment authors) were not fully sanitized before being displayed in the admin area which could be exploited to redirect from the admin area to another site. Continue reading
JIT Fixed in Firefox 3.5.1, New Vulnerability Exposed
Firefox 3.5.1 was released on Friday, July 17 which included a patch for the Just-in-time (JIT) JavaScript compiler exploit. However, a new stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability has been exposed with sample exploit code. An attacker can cause a buffer overflow and … Continue reading
Critical JavaScript Vulnerability Surfaces in Firefox 3.5
Firefox 3.5 boasts of screaming fast JavaScript performance — almost twice as fast as Firefox 3. Firefox 3.5 attributes its dramatically better JavaScript performance to the TraceMonkey Just-in-time (JIT) JavaScript compiler. However, a serious remote buffer overflow security exploit was discovered last week in Firefox 3.5’s Just-in-time (JIT) JavaScript compiler, which enables the execution of malicious code. Continue reading
