A website defacement is an attack on a website that changes the visual appearance of the site. These are typically the work of system crackers, who break into a web server and replace the hosted website with one of their own. - wikipedia Web site defacements stretch back to the birth of the Internet and continue [...]
An vulnerability for Fredrik Fahlstad’s WP-Forum Plugin has been made public on milw0rm. The exploit appears to affect an older version (1.7.8) of the popular WordPress plugin. The plugins homepage is already on version 2.2. This means this vulnerability was probably discovered shortly after the initial version 1.7.4 vulnerability reported by BlogSecurity in early 2008. As [...]