Archive for August 2009

Quinn Announces Mortgage Relief Project

August 31, 2009 Read More...

Internal Equity

Throughout the two years I’ve been on the Finance Advisory Committee for the City of DeKalb, I’ve heard the phrase “internal equity.” The first time I heard it was last year during the FY2009 budget deliberations. The City Council had just voted themselves a 10% pay cut to show leadership needed for some tough decisions that needed to be made. Tough decisions are often made necessary when expenditures are allowed to increase more than 6% annually while revenues were only increasing some 3%. Read More...

WordPress

WordPressAn exploit has been released for all current versions of WordPress including WordPress Read More...

Critical IPhone SMS Vulnerability

Critical IPhone SMS VulnerabilityApple is releasing a critical patch on Saturday to address a recent vulnerability that was demonstrated at the infamous Blackhat hacking conference. Read More...

State dropping “No Child Left Behind"?

August 7, 2009 Read More...

Show support for AMTRAK through Genoa

The Genoa Chamber of Commerce, in their continuing efforts to bring AMTRAK service through Genoa, is now asking DeKalb County residents to raise their voices loudly as a show of regional support to IDOT and AMTRAK.  As you may know, Belvidere and Rockford business leaders are lobbying hard and campaigning to have the rail service go through Belvidere and NOT Genoa. Read More...

WordPress 2.8.3 Fixes Security Holes

WordPress 2.8.3 Fixes Security HolesIf you haven’t already done so, we’d stongly recommend upgrading to WordPress 2.8.3. Also, the WordPress 2.0.x branches are now deprecated (a bit earlier then expected) and will therefore no longer be maintained. [Link]
Unfortunately, I missed some places when fixing the privilege escalation issues for 2.8.1. Luckily, the entire WordPress community has our backs. [...] Read More...