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  • Release: WordPress 4.7.1

    The WordPress logo. A "W" cut out of a dark gray circle with an outline of the same color. "WordPress" is written below the logo. "Word" is a dulled blue and "Press" is the same gray color as the logo.

    WordPress, the open-source blogging and CMS platform, has released version 4.7.1, a security update to version 4.7. The update fixes eight (8) major security issues as well as sixty-two (62) other various bugs found in 4.7. Remote code execution (RCE) in PHPMailer – No specific issue appears to affect WordPress or any of the major […]

    January 18, 2017
  • moz://a: Mozilla’s New Logo

    Mozilla's new logo uses lowercase letters and replaces the "ill" with common URL schema notation to arrive at "moz://a". The logo can be presented in one of 9 pastel colors.

    Mozilla, the organization behind the open-source Firefox web browser, has released what their new logo will look like: The logo uses a custom designed font called zilla and can be used with a range of 9 different pastel colors (they have yet to reveal which color is to be used for each context): Various different […]

    January 18, 2017
  • Chrome Changes: Encryption Notification

    Google Chrome Browser Logo: Blue gradient circle with a thick white outline and a larger circle behind it with red, yellow, and green trisection coloring from top to bottom left.

    Google Chrome version 56 (based on the open-source Chromium web browser) is scheduled to be released at the end of the month. One of the major user-level changes is how sites without encryption will appear. Until now there has just been a lowercase letter “i” with a circle around it — this was typically an indicator […]

    January 18, 2017
  • System 3: Original Constructor Free!

    If  you didn’t know, System 3 Software is remaking the 1997 classic video game Constructor! Originally they were going to call it Constructor HD – essentially re-writing the original to work better on the latest PCs with high resolution graphics – however they now feel that enough is being added that it will also be […]

    January 3, 2017
  • Intel Pushes Moore’s Law Along: 10 nm

    intel logo: a light blue print of intel with a oval starting from the bottom of the "l" of the name on the right and wrapping back around to the bottom of the "l"

    Moore’s Law (which states the number of transistors per square inch doubles roughly every twelve {12} to eighteen {18} months) has had repeated claims that it would end as the limits of silicon are hit and the size approaches that where quantum effects take over, yet it keeps proving the naysayers wrong. IEEE Spectrum reports […]

    January 3, 2017
  • Cloudflare Trips Over Leap Second

    Cloudflare Logo: An orange cloud with a white solar flare emanating from the center-bottom with the capitalized dark-gray CLOUDFLARE printed below the cloud.

    The domain name service (DNS) and security proxy provider Cloudflare appears to have tripped over the leap second at the end of 2016. The Go programming language that is uses to build it’s DNS server apparently returned a negative number for the date in some cases which caused the random number generator to throw errors. […]

    January 3, 2017
  • 2016: Banner Year for Encryption

    Bar graph from Let's Encrypt showing the massive 21 million additional certificates issued between the end of 2015 and the end of 2016.

    The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) reported that the number of websites utilizing encryption (HTTPS) to secure the traffic between the browser and the web server. For the first time since the inception of the Internet, the majority (more than half) of internet traffic was encrypted! It did not matter the size: large and small websites […]

    January 1, 2017
  • Mass Manufacturing Graphene: New Method

    Hexagonal grid representation of crystalline graphene (single-molecule layer graphite).

    Graphene has been expected to be the next big idea in electronics, medical, and many other fields for quite some time. The properties of graphene outpace that of traditional materials used today. However, mass-manufacturing the single-molecule-layers of graphite (yes, “pencil lead”) has proven difficult, complex, and costly. But new methods are being worked on… Reported […]

    January 1, 2017
  • PHPMailer Vulnerability

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    A new Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability has been reported on Christmas but details were only recently released. PHPMailer has already issued a patch (though they are not 100% confident in it), and WordPress (which uses PHPMailer) is considering issuing a security patch for current versions as well. The vulnerability allows the FROM address, when […]

    December 28, 2016
  • Yet Another Yahoo! Security Issue

    The Yahoo! logo that was introduced in 2013 and features dual-tone purple/violet thin-walled lettering.

    Yahoo! has fixed a major security flaw. This one was with their Yahoo! Mail email service that allowed an attacker to embed JavaScript in an email and have it execute. This would allow an attacker to gain access to all of a person’s email and Yahoo! account just by them opening an infected email. How was […]

    December 8, 2016
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