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Description

In the second episode of the Webmonkey podcast, we take a dive into web security.

Summary

In the second episode of the Webmonkey podcast we take a dive into web security, looking closely at the zero day cross site scripting vulnerability in WordPress 4.2, and the patch that was quickly added to fix it. Your host Jake Spurlock is joined by WIRED Lead Engineer, Zack Tollman to talk about security, best practices and more. Story Links Just-released WordPress 0day makes it easy to hijack millions of websites Disclosure of the vulveribility. Diff of the patch What happens when… Apple details how it rebuilt Siri on Mesos Visual Studio Code Sad day… #bigwp pic.twitter.com/SUXhD9GnuA — Jake Spurlock (@whyisjake) April 15, 2015 Zack’s Friday Faves Deprecating Non-Secure HTTP Android apps still suffer game-over HTTPS defects 7 months later Putting the ‘Hot Hand’ on Ice Jake’s Friday Faves Game of Thrones Recap: This Season, Everything Changes Game of Thrones Recap: The Return of Arya—And an Old Friend Game of Thrones Recap: A Wedding and Some Funerals Send the hosts feedback on their personal Twitter feeds (Jake Spurlock is @whyisjake and Zack Tollman is @tollmanz) or to the main hotline at @Webmonkey. http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Webmonkey-5-1-15.mp3

Subtitle
In the second episode of the Webmonkey podcast, we take a dive into web security.
Duration
47:38
Publishing date
2015-05-02 00:11
Link
https://www.wired.com/2015/05/webmonkey-podcast-wordpress-security-team-keeps-blog-secure/
Contributors
  Jake Spurlock
author  
Enclosures
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Shownotes

In the second episode of the Webmonkey podcast we take a dive into web security, looking closely at the zero day cross site scripting vulnerability in WordPress 4.2, and the patch that was quickly added to fix it. Your host Jake Spurlock is joined by WIRED Lead Engineer, Zack Tollman to talk about security, best practices and more.

Story Links

Sad day… #bigwp pic.twitter.com/SUXhD9GnuA

— Jake Spurlock (@whyisjake) April 15, 2015

Zack’s Friday Faves

Jake’s Friday Faves

Send the hosts feedback on their personal Twitter feeds (Jake Spurlock is @whyisjake and Zack Tollman is @tollmanz) or to the main hotline at @Webmonkey.

http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Webmonkey-5-1-15.mp3