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Our engineering processes seriously failed this afternoon and cost you and your blogs nearly 4 hours of downtime and almost 100 million views.
Painfully, this isn’t the first time this winter I’ve had to give you similar news.
When incidents like this happen, our entire engineering team comes online to support the recovery as needed. Immediately after, we begin taking every measure to protect from the uncovered issue in the future.
We are constantly working to shore up our processes and solidify the stability of this quickly growing network, even more so as we’ve fallen behind the last few weeks.
Tumblr’s success is supporting your success, and we take this mission very seriously.
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While browsing the Dashboard, in addition to clicking
JandKto jump to the next and previous posts, you can now clickLto like the current post!I’m constantly forgetting this and then remembering that it has the potential to change lives, so here’s a reminder…
Also: Hitting R will Reblog the current post.
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How a browser worm slithered across a huge number of Tumblr accounts | Ars Technica
A quickly spreading worm on Tumblr has caused media companies The Verge, Reuters, and a large number of other account holders to publish a post laced with racist epithets and other offensive content.
The stunt, attributed to long-time Internet trolling collective GNAA, caused affected Tumblr accounts to display the post. People who viewed the post while logged into Tumblr were in turn forced to publish the offensive content, causing the attack to spread virally according to security researchers. More than 86,000 accounts were affected, according to unconfirmed claims from GNAA members. Tumblr issued a statement saying site engineers are working to combat a “viral post circulating on Tumblr.” It advised anyone who has viewed the post to immediately log out of all browsers that may be logged in.
According to researchers at antivirus provider Sophos, the GNAA post spread by including malicious code that exploited weaknesses in Tumblr’s reblogging feature. A coding tag contained in the post linked to malicious code on another website. The JavaScript exploit, which was included in an iframe tag that pointed to an outside website, used what is known as base-64 encoding. It’s a technique that uses printable ASCII characters to represent large chunks of binary data and has the benefit of making it harder to know exactly how a script will behave when executed.
“It shouldn’t have been possible for someone to post such malicious JavaScript into a Tumblr post,” Sophos Senior Technology Consultant Graham Cluley wrote. “Our assumption is that the attackers managed to skirt around Tumblr’s defenses by disguising their code through Base 64 encoding and embedding it in a data URI.”
It’s unclear how the worm was able to spread so rapidly, but one theory that couldn’t be ruled out as of the time of this writing is the possibility of an XSS hole found on Tumblr’s site. Short for cross-site scripting, XSS techniques allow attackers to inject browser code of their choice into websites that are trusted by millions of users. In turn, miscreants can exploit XSS holes to perform drive-by malware installations, steal Web authentication credentials, post unauthorized content, or carry out other tasks not intended or initiated by the end user…
last christmas my sister said she wanted a real star for the tree so I did this
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Just a reminder…
Red Kettles & Bell Ringers
As you open your pocketbooks for the next natural disaster, or the Christmas season, please keep these facts in mind:
The American Red CrossPresident and CEO Marsha J. Evans’ salary for 2011 was $951,957 plusexpenses.The United Way President Brian Gallagher receives a$675,000 base salary along with numerous expensebenefits .
UNICEF CEO Caryl M. Stern receives $1,900,000per year (158K) per month, plusall expenses including aROLLS ROYCE.
Less than 5 cents (4.4 cents) per donated dollar goes to the cause.
Meanwhile…The Salvation Army’sCommissioner Todd Bassett receives a salary of only$13,000 per year (plus housing) for managing this $2 billion dollar organization.96 percent of donated dollars go to the cause.
The American LegionNational Commander receives a $0..00 zerosalary. Your donations go to help Veterans and their families and youth!
· The Veterans of Foreign Wars National Commander receives a $0..00 zero salary .
Your donations go to help Veterans and their families and youth!·
The Disabled American Veterans National Commander receives a$0..00 zero salary .
Your donations go to help Veterans and their families and youth!
· The Military Order of Purple Hearts National Commander receives a$0..00 zero salary .
Your donations go to help Veterans and their families and youth!
· The Vietnam Veterans Association National Commander receives a$0..00 zero salary .
Your donations go to help Veterans and their families and youth!
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My mom just emailed me this XD
Smartphone users now spend more time on Instagram than Twitter.
In August, some 7.3 million people pulled up Instagram on their phones every day, compared to only 6.9 million who opened Twitter’s mobile platform religiously, according to data released by comScore, a digital market research firm. What’s more, fans of Instagram, which lets users snap, edit and share photos, spent almost 4½ hours using the app in August, compared with just under three hours for serial tweeters, who blast out short messages to “followers.”
Twitter still has more smartphone users, but not as many log in daily. The social media start-up had 29 million unique mobile visitors last month, compared with 22 million who used Instagram. Twitter also has almost 300 million total visitors — including those logging in from desktop computers — while Instagram is only on phones.
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