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Popular WordPress Plugin WPML Hacked By Angry Former Employee (zdnet.com)
A very popular WordPress plugin was hacked over the weekend after a hacker defaced its website and sent a mass message to all its customers revealing the existence of supposed unpatched security holes. From a report: In a follow-up mass email, the plugin's developers blamed the hack on a former employee, who also defaced their website. The plugin in question is WPML (or WP MultiLingual), the most popular WordPress plugin for translating and serving WordPress sites in multiple languages. According to its website, WPML has over 600,000 paying customers and is one of the very few WordPress plugins that is so reputable that it doesn't need to advertise itself with a free version on the official WordPress.org plugins repository. But on Saturday, ET timezone, the plugin faced its first major security incident since its launch in 2007. The attacker, which the WPML team claims is a former employee, sent out a mass email to all the plugin's customers.
If your security is so shitty that a *former* employee can deface your website, you basically don't have any security...
The first thing that happens when an employee leaves (particularly someone who has access to files) is to CHANGE ALL THE PASSWORDS! DUH!
What year is it, 2002, 2003, 2004... 3019? Every year this happens
The fact-checks behind 'The Daily Show's' 50 Fox news 'lies'
By Lauren Carroll, Aaron Sharockman on Thursday, February 26th, 2015 at 3:00 p.m.
The Daily Show posted a Vine Wednesday titled, "50 Fox News lies in 6 seconds."
We’ve fact-checked almost all of the statements they cited. For the record, we originally counted 49 claims, not 50. The Daily Show said No. 50 was left off due to a technical error. They've updated their Vine, which we've included here.
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1. "In July 2010 the government said small businesses -- 60 percent -- will lose their health care, 45 percent of big business and a large percentage of individual health." Sean Hannity, Nov. 11, 2013 False
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2. "And President Obama has offered to pay out of his own pocket for the museum of Muslim culture out of his own pocket, yet it's the Republican National Committee who's paying for this." Anna Kooiman, Oct. 5, 2013 https://bit.ly/2W1wHzv
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3. Labor union president Andy Stern is "the most frequent visitor" at the White House. Glenn Beck, Dec. 3, 2009 False
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4. "Far more children died last year drowning in their bathtubs than were killed accidentally by guns." Tucker Carlson, Aug. 9, 2014 Pants on Fire
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5. White House Political Director Patrick Gaspard once served as the "right-hand man" for Bertha Lewis, who heads up ACORN. Steve Doocy, Sept. 29, 2009 False
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6. "Look at the debt that has been accumulated in the last two years. It's more debt under this president than all those other presidents combined."
Sarah Palin, May 31, 2011 False
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7. "There is no good data showing secondhand smoke kills people." John Stossel, Dec. 4, 2014 False
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8. "Democrats are poised now to cause this largest tax increase in U.S. history." Sarah Palin, Aug. 1, 2010 Pants on Fire
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9. "The insurance industry is actually run by mostly Democrats." Dana Perino, Oct. 31, 2013 False
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10. The Obama administration "manipulated deportation data to make it appear that the Border Patrol was deporting more illegal immigrants than the Bush administration." Lou Dobbs, July 1, 2014 False
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11. Some doctors say Ebola can be transmitted through the air by "a sneeze or some cough." George Will, Oct. 19, 2014 False
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12. Says the Texas State Board of Education is considering eliminating references to Christmas and the Constitution in textbooks. Gretchen Carlson, March 10, 2010 Pants on Fire
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13. Because of President Barack Obama’s failure to "push job creation," the black unemployment rate in Ferguson, Mo., is three times higher than the white unemployment rate. Lou Dobbs, Aug. 19, 2014 False
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14. When White House communications director Anita Dunn said that Mao Tse-tung was "one of her favorite philosophers, only Fox News picked that up."
Bill O’Reilly, Oct. 23, 2009 False
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15. "The president of the United States will be taking a trip over to India that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200 million a day." Michele Bachmann, Nov. 3, 2010 False (Note: Bachmann’s claim was made on CNN, not Fox News but Glenn Beck made a similar claim on Fox)
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16. "We researched to find out if anybody on Fox News had ever said you're going to jail if you don't buy health insurance. Nobody's ever said it." Bill O’Reilly, Oct. 27, 2010 Pants on Fire
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17. "If you make more than $250,000 a year you only really take home about $125,000." Steve Doocy, July 11, 2012 False
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18. A Census Bureau worker says he was told to skew information to bring the unemployment rate down "as we headed into an election season." Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Nov. 19, 2013 False
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19. "Health care mandate will require imprisonment and fines for Americans who can’t afford to purchase insurance or pay hefty government penalties." Patients First, Sept. 21, 2009 Mostly False (Note: Fox hosts have said closely similar statements because of our research into Bill O’Reilly’s Pants on Fire claim -- No. 1
When a self styled left wing comedy show is your source of truth about the world... I just dont know what to say to that. You are simply too stupid to understand anything an adult might say in response.
Do you also think SNL is a news show?
Fact checked by a comedy show... and you eat this stuff up. -eye roll-
Do you have an actual rebuttal to the fact checking?
The comedy show referenced the fake Fox News verbatim, it was fact checked and proven valid. When a comedy show OWNS FACTUALLY your "news" operation? YOU GOT SMOKED BY YOUR OWN LIES, MORON.
Deal with it snowflake.
Cool Fact: The Daily Show was originally a parody of network news. Being a show on the "Comedy Central" channel should be a give-away.
All the kids started watching it instead of "real" news and then it then evolved into an ultra-left hate-spouting alternate-news program.
If you hate being factually challenged and proven a liar constantly, one easy solution is to stop lying faggot Republicans. It's so simple even a GOP caveman can do it - or can you? I thought you could... maybe?
Let's see if you can go 3 minutes without lying, then we'll double it. If you Trumptards make it one full day without a single lie, you may even graduate back to society. But let's not get ahead of ourselves.
You are backing a traitor right now, that can't be easily repaired. He's literally Putin's dick cozy. Literally, Trump keeps Putin's cock warm for his livelihood and well-being ongoing. Mueller brings the thick rope soon though.
Rope doesn't lie, Republican traitors. Memba dat.
Hope they get this idiot charged and release their name.
Every time one of these "inside" IT type persons does something against an employer by using their privileged access to their systems, it makes it more difficult for all of us to operate within our own companies. And don't try to fault me by the "ex-employee" logic. Any one of us knows full well we could fsck with a former employer's systems even if they think they've locked us out.
Those in our field that violate the trust placed in us by employers should be drawn and quartered, tarred and feathered. At they very least named and shamed.
... and then, if he's proven to be resonably right with his accusations, be let of the hook. It should be very easy to check the WPML codebase and the security holes he speaks of. And if they exist in the ways he says and are easyly exploited as he says I'd be willing to believe him more than I would believe the WPML team.
When it comes to WP Plugins WPML is one of the better ones but I've seen so much shit in the WP world that it wouldn't surprise me if WPML were borked in some amateurish manner as the man accuses them to be.
My 2 cents.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
Gotta claim HAXX0RIN and HAX or people won't CLICK because that's the law of INTERTUBES CLICKBAIT.
Or maybe it's just idiot editors picking idiot stories to share.