WordPress

Well, I’ve been monitoring this software release from it’s beta, and I believe I have published the beta release in my blog. And to think that I have been busy for a while and was not able to check on the updates of this software. What did I missed? Well, I you hadn’t known also, after the beta was up they already released RC1 and not long after that, the official version is already published!

Yep, you heard it right! WordPress 2.8 the official release is available for everybody to use. If you haven’t known the features of the new release, head over to the WordPress Blog.

Grab yourself a copy and test it now!

WordPress is now in Beta 2, and it wouldn’t be long they will release a release candidate, that will probably contains all the features of the Final Release of WordPress 2.8

If you’re dying to try WP 2.8 now, you can download the Beta 2 source at least it’s the most latest WordPress you can get your hands on. But for now, if you already have set up your blog using an older version of WordPress just wait until they release RC1 or the Final Release. It wouldn’t take long now knowing that it’s already in Beta 2.

For now, enjoy experimenting the latest source of our favorite blogging software.

REDMOND, Wash. – Microsoft Corp. is taking the unusual step of issuing an emergency fix for a security hole in its Internet Explorer software that has exposed millions of users to having their computers taken over by hackers.

The “zero-day” vulnerability, which came to light last week, allows criminals to take over victims’ machines simply by steering them to infected Web sites; users don’t have to download anything for their computers to get infected, which makes the flaw in Internet Explorer’s programming code so dangerous. Internet Explorer is the world’s most widely used Web browser.

Microsoft said it plans to ship a security update, rated “critical,” for the browser on Wednesday. People with the Windows Update feature activated on their computers will get the patch automatically.

Thousands of Web sites already have been compromised by criminals looking to exploit the flaw. The bad guys have loaded malicious code onto those sites that automatically infect visitors’ machines if they’re using Internet Explorer and haven’t employed a complicated series of workarounds that Microsoft has suggested.

Microsoft said it has seen attacks targeting the flaw only in Internet Explorer 7, the most widely used version, but has cautioned that all other current editions of the browser are vulnerable.

Microsoft rarely issues security fixes for its software outside of its regular monthly updates. The company last did it in October, and a year and half before that. - AP

source: GMANews.TV

read the Microsoft Security Advisory