Software Freedom Day 2011

Software Freedom 2011 is a yearly celebration for Software Freedom! Every year there are thousands teams organizing Software Freedom Day in different countries and cities. Let have a look at Software Freedom Day 2011 event in India, Singapore and Vietnam.

Chennai, India

Dwarak published his Software Freedom Day 2011 experiences in this Mozilla India blog post. Mozilla project won the best stall award.

Hanoi, Vietnam

Ha Quang Duong gave a talk about Mozilla L10n activities in Vietnam. Mozilla swag was given away at the event, Thanks Yang for taking care of Mozilla swag distribution.

Photos by Phan Trọng Khanh

Singapore

Preetam Rai represented Mozilla at SFD2011 in Singapore. You can view more picture of the event on Preetam's facebook album.

Wordpress Blind SQL Injection Vulnerability

My friend a Bay Area entrepreneur had a nasty surprise, his website was defaced. Updating the wordpress content management system to stable version and resetting the default theme from backup fixed the problem.

So don't forget to keep your wordpress CMS updated to latest release and secure your wordpress website to avoid such nasty surprises.

The vulnerability effects WordPress version 3.0.4. Malicious script kiddies exploit the remote blind SQL injection vulnerability in comment_post_ID to deface the wordpress websites. You can learn more about this vulnerability on packetstorm.
packetstormsecurity.org/files/104989/WordPress-3.0.4-Blind-SQL-Injection.html

Malaysian Newspaper Interviews Mozilla Rep Hilary Ho

Malaysian Mozilla Rep Hilary Ho Jia Hao was interviewed by English-language Malaysian newspaper New Sarawak Tribune . Here is short excerpt of the interview.

Mozilla Firefox recruiting contributors

Mozilla Firefox, a well known and widely used web browser is planning to set foot in the state by recruiting local contributors to make the web browser more user-friendly and community-based.

A representative of Malaysia Mozilla and Mozilla Web Programmer, Hilary Ho Jia Hao, 21, when met by New Sarawak Tribune yesterday said the recruitment is open to everyone who has interest in making the web browser more local based with no limitation on the recruitment as long as they are able to contribute.

A student of Cognitive Science at Univerisiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), Ho revealed that there are more than 40,000 people in the world who are involved in it.
Read the full interview on New Sarawak Tribune website.