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WordThumb can now take screenshots of websites for you

UPDATE: WordThumb has now been merged into TimThumb and has become TimThumb 2.0. Please head over to the TimThumb site now for updates and to get the code. Just for fun I added the ability to take screenshots of any website to WordThumb. You can even apply all the image manipulation and filters that it supports for regular images […]

August 4, 2011 | TimThumb, Wordpress | No comments

A secure rewrite of timthumb.php as WordThumb

Big News [April 24th, 2012]: I’ve launched Wordfence to permanently fix your WordPress site’s security issues. Read this now. Update 3 (Final): WordThumb has now been merged into TimThumb and has become TimThumb 2.0. Please head over to the TimThumb site now for updates and to get the code. Update 2: WordThumb can now take screenshots of websites for […]

August 4, 2011 | Security, TimThumb, Wordpress | No comments

Which al-Assad Would you Like?

President Bashar al-Assad of Syria has unleashed the rest of his tanks on Syrian protesters. Russia is warning that the country is veering towards all out civil war. Besides being politically two faced, al-Assad has an unusually asymmetric face. So I thought I’d break out both faces and rejoin them into these:

August 3, 2011 | Politics | No comments

Technical details and scripts of the WordPress Timthumb.php hack

Big News [April 24th, 2012]: I’ve launched Wordfence to permanently fix your WordPress site’s security issues. Read this now. UPDATE: WordThumb has now been merged into TimThumb and has become TimThumb 2.0. Please head over to the TimThumb site now for updates and to get the code. As I mentioned yesterday my WordPress blog was hacked. The security hole […]

August 2, 2011 | Hacker News, Security, TimThumb, Wordpress | 8 comments

Zero Day Vulnerability in many WordPress Themes

Big News [April 24th, 2012]: I’ve launched Wordfence to permanently fix your WordPress site’s security issues. Read this now. Update: WordThumb has now been merged into TimThumb and has become TimThumb 2.0. Please head over to the TimThumb site now for updates and to get the code. Update 4: I’ve also added the ability to screenshot websites to […]

August 1, 2011 | Security, TimThumb, Wordpress | 3 comments

My name is Mark Maunder. I've been blogging since around 2003 when I started on Movable Type and ended up on WordPress which is what I use to publish today. With my wife Kerry, I'm the co-founder of Wordfence which protects over 5 million WordPress sites from hackers and is run by a talented team of 36 people. I'm an instrument rated pilot and I fly a Cessna 206 along with a 1964 Cessna 172 in the Pacific Northwest and Colorado. I'm originally from Cape Town, South Africa but live in the US these days. I code in a bunch of languages and am quite excited about our emerging AI overlords and how they're going to be putting us to work for them.