Reflections
Feedburner Awareness API
Having fun with FeedBurner Awareness API.
The FeedBurner Awareness API (AwAPI) allows publishers of FeedBurner feeds to reuse the detailed traffic statistics we capture for any of their feeds. Third-party applications and web services that consume feeds can leverage this data to provide useful feed awareness statistics to potential subscribers… – awarenessapi
In October 07, BlogSecurity released [...]
Is Gravatar Secure to Use?
I really love the Gravatar concept. Its simple, useful, powerful and centrally managed, but how secure is it to use on a blog or service?
Regular users may have already seen that we have implemented Gravatars onto BlogSecurity; so its safe to use then, right?
I made a point on our new BlogSec-News service a couple days [...]
When to Upgrade your Software
We got an interesting comment from Dave today that made me reflect on the question of when to update or upgrade your blog software.
Until you folks on this site tell me I’m not doing the update. WP always has some security issues when its released.
It may seem like a fairly simple question, but when should [...]
Facebook IE Users at Risk
Elazar recently released a buffer overflow proof of concept in Aurigma’s ImageUploader ActiveX plugin.
This ActiveX control is used by Facebook and I have seen it mentioned that MySpace is affected too. The vulnerability is only present for Internet Explorer users.
This vulnerability will allow an attacker to execute commands on your computer via your browser.
This has [...]
Failing to prepare
It seems that security tips for our software often extend to keep up to date with your software. This strategy alone, means two things:
You can trust everyone everywhere to responsibly disclose vulnerabilities to your vendor;
When a new release is made public, the race is on… will you upgrade before the attacker diff’s the packages and [...]
