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Traditional VPNs: Not Just All-or-Nothing Access

March 6th, 2007 at 12:27 am » Comments (1)

Most people think that when they use traditional VPN technologies, such as PPTP, L2TP, and/or IPSec, that they are opening their network to a full, unfiltered connection from a computer, which is especially bad for a home computer, with unknown anti-virus and anti-spyware status, connected to a work network. This is true. However, with a […]



WordPress 2.1.1 Dangerous, upgrade!

March 3rd, 2007 at 11:55 pm » Comments (0)

The official WordPress development blog is reporting that WordPress version 2.1.1 was compromised by a malicious hacker and anyone who downloaded that version in the past several days needs to upgrade immediately to version 2.1.2. Many more details at that link; I checked the two files they mentioned (feed.php and theme.php in the wp-includes folder) […]