There’s a serious hole blown in PayPal’s security, and there’s very little that PayPal themselves can do to protect users against the exploit. Internet Explorer, Google Chrome or Apple Safari browsers running on Windows are all affected and the only safe browser is the latest versions of Firefox (version 3.5 or later). Basically there is a flaw in Microsoft’s CryptoAPI used by many Internet browsers which allows a hacker to display authentic looking pages with https:// URLs. Normally https:// web addresses are secured by SSL certificates, but the flaw allows use of SSL certificates from other sources to be used to replace the PayPal certificate and it’s impossible for the user to spot the difference. The security flaw was first published in July and Microsoft are yet to release a fix. Until then best practice has to be to use the Firefox browser to access PayPal.

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Yes ive finally updated the plugin!

Actually Ive completely started again, its a total rewrite.

So here is the all new 2.0 branch, it isnt completely finished yet, there is no options page it all done in the widget setup page now.

The code has been optimised now for wordpress 2.8.

This plugin now requires PHP5 with CURL.

latest version is here 1.9.x-pre

You can now disable the right sidebar and the space is automagically reclaimed, and the theme sets to full width mode.

Got this today when i tried to view a patch for a game that I OWN! Yes a legal download!

ACCESS TO THIS IP ADDRESS RELATING TO THE PIRATE BAY WEBSITE HAS BEEN BLOCKED

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WHY?
On the 24 July 2009, an Order was made by the High Court requiring eircom to block or otherwise disable access by its subscribers to the website thePirateBay.org, its related domain names, IP addresses and URLs. The Court was satisfied that on the basis of the evidence presented by the record companies that the PirateBay website is a website that facilitates the exchange of copyrighted sound recordings without the consent of the copyright owners.

eircom recognises the legitimate rights of the owners of copyrighted material and believes that individuals who share or download copyrighted material without the authorisation or the permission of the copyright owner are acting illegally.

The Order further provides that should the PirateBay website content be legitimatised in the future, then eircom has liberty to apply to the Court to have the Order vacated and access to the PirateBay website enabled.

eircom in compliance with the Order has agreed that access to the website the PirateBay.org, its related domain names, IP addresses and URLs from the eircom network will be blocked indefinitely from the 1st September 2009.

eircom would like to reassure customers that:

• eircom will not monitor customer’s activities at any stage, nor will it place any monitoring equipment or software on its network in order to facilitate this block.
• eircom will not provide personal details or any information relating to customers to any third party, including the record companies.

OK so ive moved back to a VPS 🙂 $10 a month isnt bad!

I’m trying out lighthttpd with fast-cgi, see what the fuss is all about! Permalinks had to change, there is a workaround to keep them the same but i cant be bothered right now!