Security again, LJ vs DW
2009-Sep-25, Friday 16:53![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thorfinnLJ-news: Media embedding change - important notice
DW-maintenance: LJ web security exploit
In short, LJ had a "cross site scripting hack" which infected a bunch of people's accounts. Check the LJ news post and verify you're okay if you're on LJ.
However, Dreamwidth wasn't vulnerable.
Yet another reason to Dump LJ in favour of Dreamwidth.
ETA: If you're not running some kind of flash blocker, you probably want to be.
Safari - http://apple.com/safari - http://hoyois.github.com/safariextensions/clicktoplugin/ (Was: http://rentzsch.github.com/clicktoflash/)
Firefox - http://mozilla.com/firefox - http://noscript.net/ or http://flashblock.mozdev.org/
Opera - http://opera.com/ - http://my.opera.com/Lex1/blog/index.dml/tag/Flashblock
Chrome - http://google.com/chrome - http://www.privoxy.org/ (run a local proxy) or switch to one of the above.
Internet Explorer - http://www.microsoft.com/ie - http://www.privoxy.org/ (run a local proxy) or switch to one of the above.
DW-maintenance: LJ web security exploit
In short, LJ had a "cross site scripting hack" which infected a bunch of people's accounts. Check the LJ news post and verify you're okay if you're on LJ.
However, Dreamwidth wasn't vulnerable.
Yet another reason to Dump LJ in favour of Dreamwidth.
ETA: If you're not running some kind of flash blocker, you probably want to be.
Safari - http://apple.com/safari - http://hoyois.github.com/safariextensions/clicktoplugin/ (Was: http://rentzsch.github.com/clicktoflash/)
Firefox - http://mozilla.com/firefox - http://noscript.net/ or http://flashblock.mozdev.org/
Opera - http://opera.com/ - http://my.opera.com/Lex1/blog/index.dml/tag/Flashblock
Chrome - http://google.com/chrome - http://www.privoxy.org/ (run a local proxy) or switch to one of the above.
Internet Explorer - http://www.microsoft.com/ie - http://www.privoxy.org/ (run a local proxy) or switch to one of the above.
