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Facebook to alert you against nation-state hacks

October 20, 2015October 20, 2015 Kevin Bruce Francisco Leave a comment

Facebook posts on its page that they will be alerting you if they think the government is trying to breach your account.

“While we have always taken steps to secure accounts that we believe to have been compromised, we decided to show this additional warning if we have a strong suspicion that an attack could be government-sponsored. We do this because these types of attacks tend to be more advanced and dangerous than others, and we strongly encourage affected people to take the actions necessary to secure all of their online accounts, the announcement said.”

With that said, the Login Approvals will make sure that no one else could gain access to your account by blocking other devices trying to do so. If someone wants to log in, Facebook will send a code directly to your registered phone that needs to be inputted before successfully logging in. This ensures that only you and anyone you authorize could have access to your account.

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Facebook to alert you against nation-state hacks

October 20, 2015October 20, 2015 Kevin Bruce Francisco Leave a comment

Facebook posts on its page that they will be alerting you if they think the government is trying to breach your account.

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This iOS bug crashes your iPhone using one text message

May 28, 2015May 28, 2015 Kevin Bruce Francisco Leave a comment

There is a major bug spreading via text message that causes iPhones to crash.

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The message is comprised of Arabic letters and can be received through SMS or iMessage. Once you receive this while the phone is in locked screen mode, it can cause the Messages app to completely stop working and eventually crash the entire phone. TNW mentions that the bug could be related to iOS processing of its Unicode text.

Beware of any messages containing the following characters:

?????????????????? ? ?h ? ? ?

As for the workaround, you must “send a photo or piece of text to the original sender using the share sheet in another app.” Reports also state the it is currently affecting iPhones running iOS 7 and 8. Apple is already aware of the matter and is working on a fix.

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Auto-update convenience: WordPress upgrades itself to fix critical vulnerability

April 22, 2015April 22, 2015 Max Limpag Leave a comment

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After yesterday’s upgrading of key WordPress plugins to fix a cross site scripting vulnerability, the WordPress team released version 4.1.2, which it described as a critical security release.

“WordPress versions 4.1.1 and earlier are affected by a critical cross-site scripting vulnerability, which could enable anonymous users to compromise a site,” the WordPress team said in a blog post announcing the release. The release also fixed 3 other security issues including an SQL injection vulnerability in some plugins.

I got the notification of the new release at past midnight. Years back, that would have meant that I’d need to stay up very late, download the latest release, upload the files to the server and perform the upgrade for each of the site I’m running.

Now it’s automatic.

AUTOMATIC UPDATES. The email notification I got last night that the WordPress running one of my sites has automatically updated to the latest security release – without any trigger or interventions from me.

Background update

Apart from being easy to set up and use, the background update system of WordPress is one of its best features. Manual updating of content management systems is tedious and if you run multiple websites, it can be frustrating.

With background and auto updating, WordPress makes sure that its users (at least those whose sites have been set up for it) always have the latest release and the corresponding security fixes that come with it.

Previously, I would have gotten the release notification from an alert triggered via RSS. Last night, I knew about version 4.1.2 after getting notified that one of my sites was already upgraded to the new release.

Other CMSes like Drupal, for example, not only do not have auto-updating but upgrading them can be so complicated and wearisome. Drupal upgrades, for example, can break features and introduce incompatibilities between major version updates. Remember CCK?

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reCAPTCHA

December 5, 2014December 5, 2014 Sikadista Leave a comment

What is reCAPTCHA?

reCAPTCHA is a free service to protect your website from spam and abuse. reCAPTCHA uses an advanced risk analysis engine and adaptive CAPTCHAs to keep automated software from engaging in abusive activities on your site. It does this while letting your valid users pass through with ease.

reCAPTCHA offers more than just spam protection. Every time our CAPTCHAs are solved, that human effort helps digitize text, annotate images, and build machine learning datasets. This in turn helps preserve books, improve maps, and solve hard AI problems.

To install reCAPTCHA just visit here.