The May 2009 Issue of ‘The ActiveBlogging Report’ is now ready.

Topics:

What’s New With ActiveBlogging.

Anatomy of a Site Blowup. We often think of hackers as the biggest threat on the Internet – but sometimes it can be SUCCESS…

Save Money and Time – Steps To Keep Your Site Lean And Mean. There are many ‘gotchas’ on the Internet that can shut down your site, or slow it to the point you’ll need to spend big bucks for an upgrade. Here’s a list of common and not-so-common problems – …

Over the past week, a security issue has popped up with Amember, the membership site program (and the one used here at ActiveBlogging).

Simply put, not all input is cleaned up properly; the result is, it’s possible to create a user name that contains malicious Javascript, and then use that to grab cookie information (among other things). The result is a XSS (cross site scripting) attack.

Details on the problem are explained here, and CGI-Central (makers of Amember) have posted a fix you can add yourself (total time to patch …

After an annoying couple of weeks (and the site down all weekend) ActiveBlogging is back to normal – and the many problems I ended up fixing are going to be fodder for the next (and much-delayed) ActiveBlogging report – stay tuned…