Its around a week now, that I had written a post regarding “application for New Google Adsense Beta Interface” and just few hours back, I got a link on the top-right corner in my adsense dashboard with the text ” Try The New Adsense Interface beta”.
Yes! The all New Interface for Google Adsense – Beta is now available!
Here is a screenshot of my earnings in the New Google Adsense Beta Interface:
The New Google Adsense Interface is providing more detailed performance reports and enables you to view daily/weekly/monthly stats in graphical formats. The Performace Reports section is the best part of this new interface providing an intellectual view through Graphs in a wide range of categories including Ad types, Bid Types, Ad units etc.
There is much more in this New Google Adsense Beta Interface and I’ll provide a full specs review for the same soon.
If you have applied for the New Google Adsense Interface! Go check your Adsense Dashboard! If you have not applied yet go through the post Google Publishers: Apply To Enable New Google Adsense Beta Interface and apply for it!
Tell us, how you like this new Google Adsense Interface, fill up the comment box.
The Mozilla Dev. team had planned to release Firefox Security update v3.6.2 at the end of this month first, but a critical security hole that allows remote attackers to access and control one computer made the Developer team to release this update today. The exploit is discovered by Evgeny Legerov and Secunia rated it as highly critical.
The Updated version (3.6.2) of Mozilla Firefox is all-ready released and is available at Mozilla Firefox home page, plus it is also available in Firefox Web-browser’s automatic update section.
The Developer team asked Firefox users to update their browser to the latest version, to avoid their systems being hacked or remotely accessed by attackers.
Bugzilla lists 111 bugs that have been fixed in Firefox 3.6.2 of which 21 have been classified as critical by the Mozilla developers. The recently reported security vulnerability is not the only security vulnerability fixed in the latest Firefox release. Firefox users should look at the known issues section in the release notes to make sure that they do not run into problems after updating their web browser.
FireFox 3.6.2 releasenotes:
Firefox 3.6.2 fixes the following issues found in previous versions of Firefox 3.6:
Ryan Boren the lead developer of WordPress Team has just announced the release of WordPress 2.8.6 Security update through
WP blog. The release fixes two vulnerabilities relevant only for blogs having more than one authors like iTB as they can only be exploited by registered, logged in users with posting rights. In his blog post Ryan Boren suggests webmasters having untrusted authors to switch and update to WordPress 2.8.6.
The first problem is an XSS vulnerability in Press This discovered by Benjamin Flesch. The second problem, discovered by Dawid Golunski, is an issue with sanitizing uploaded file names that can be exploited in certain Apache configurations. Thanks to Benjamin and Dawid for finding and reporting these.
The update is now officially available on WordPress.org and could be downloaded from : http://wordpress.org/download/. To update your wordpress blog to v.2.8.6 all you need to do is to click on Automatic Update in your WordPress DashBoard (Admin Panel), and within a minute you will get your blog upgraded to WordPress 2.8.6.
WordPress 2.8.6 upgrade does not require any update to WordPress database, but before updating it is recommended to take a backup both of your wordpress files hosted on the server plus the mysql database, which could be required in case the upgrade fails for any reason.
Peter Westwood on October 20, released WordPress V 2.8.5, and termed it the “Hardening Release”. Hardening Release means more preventive measures have been taken to secure WordPress.
Worthy of note though is an issue that was addressed dealing with a trackback spam denial of service attack which was discussed on the WP-Hackers mailing list the other day. This exploit takes advantage of the WP-Trackback.php file which would exhaust a servers resources when used. This problem is specifically addressed in the Hardening Release. This release also cover up some bug fixes.
The headline changes in this release are:
- A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen.
- Removal of areas within the code where php code in variables was evaluated.
- Switched the file upload functionality to be whitelisted for all users including Admins.
- Retiring of the two importers of Tag data from old plugins.
Peter Westwood, recommends web masters to check out the WordPress Exploit Scanner, through which you can scan if your site may have been hit by one of the recent exploits and you would like to make sure that you have cleared out all traces of the exploit.
Why This update?
On august 1o, a vulnerability in WordPress 2.8.3 was discovered by Laurent Gaffié and was posted over the test and security portal milw0rm. The vulnerability is named as Remote admin reset password and could be exploited by an attacker to compromise the admin account of any wordpress/wordpress-mu <= 2.8.3.
Response by WordPress..
In regards to this exploit, The wordpress team has released the secured WordPress 2.8.4 as a fix for the exploit which is still under consideration to keep track over future problems and fixing issues. It is highly advisable to all wordpress users to update their blogs to the latest v 2.8.4
You can download the latest version of WordPress i.e. WordPress 2.8.4 by clicking here. Or you can simply go to your dashboard automatic upgrade option to upgrade your wordpress to v2.8.4 . Remember to take a backup of your databse and files before upgrading to the new version. You can do it by using php MyAdmin in your host cPanel, or for newbies and beginners , you can simply use the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin, which provides you options to download the backup automatically.
For any help or queries regarding the same, use the comment box under this post.
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