Category Archives: WordPress
Writing content in the new editor using Obama ipsum
This is a problem that’s brought together churches and synagogues and mosques and people of all faiths as part of a grassroots movement. These are some of the challenges that test our conscience – as Americans and people of faith. These are the policies I will pursue. And nothing will change. That’s the promise of …
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Content Visibility
We’ve recently added the Content Visibility plugin and add-ons to UBC Blogs. This suite of plugins allows you to add rules to each content block on your site which dictate who can see that block and when. You may, for example, want much of your site to be open to the public, but certain pieces …
Botnet attack on UBC WordPress websites
For the past 24 hours (since about 10PM on 21st July 2014), UBC IT has detected a large botnet attack specifically targeting WordPress websites. If your site is hosted on UBC CMS or UBC Blogs, you should have no reason for concern. This sort of attack happens regularly and we have systems in place to …
TimThumb Vulnerability June 2014
tl;dr: UBC Blogs, UBC CMS and the new CTLT Events websites are not and were not vulnerable. Your blog or cms site is and was safe. A serious vulnerability was disclosed earlier this week in a popular third-party image manipulation script called TimThumb. The vulnerability allowed an unauthorized visitor to create, remove and modify many …