Since the release of Pligg v1.0.2 it has become clear that there are once again some serious security vulnerabilities within the system. This isn't the first time pligg site owners and their registered users have succumbed to security exploits within...
Author: Lincoln on December 2nd, 2009
Category: Pligg
Tags: Pligg, pligg security, pligg vulnerabilities
Anyone who has had the displeasure of working with or owning a Pligg website will know exactly how bad the system actually is in a real world live web environment. Packt Publishing on the other hand seem to think that...
Author: Lincoln on November 26th, 2009
Category: Pligg
Tags: cms awards, Pligg, pligg cms
Last week we decided to run a live install of Pligg v1.0.0 RC5 as a test to see if the usual spammers would come to visit it, lo and behold we were not disappointed with around ten spam registrations per...
Author: Lincoln on May 25th, 2009
Category: Pligg
Tags: Pligg, pligg spam, spam
DesignFloat has suffered more than it's fair share of pligg related problems, hacks, database corruptions in the past so much so we wrote an article not long ago asking whether DesignFloat needed to move away from Pligg to survive. It...
Author: Lincoln on May 22nd, 2009
Category: Pligg
Tags: designfloat, designfloat hacked, Pligg, pligg hacked
Back in July 2008 we wrote an article about AutoPligg a tool which allows BlackHat type’s to submit stories automatically to thousands of pligg based websites to gain backlinks. Bookmarking Demon is yet another such tool that’s now claiming to...
Author: Lincoln on February 22nd, 2009
Category: Pligg
Tags: autopligg, blackhat seo, bookmarking deamon, bookmarking demon, social bookmarking
Finally after almost a year without an update Pligg an open source web application that lets anyone start a digg type social news site released v1.0.0 RC1 back in January. So is v1.0 of Pligg everything users had hoped for...
Author: Lincoln on February 17th, 2009
Category: Pligg
Tags: digg clone, Pligg, Pligg Beta, Pligg RC1
Social News sites are a popular subject and it seems everybody wants to start a digg clone of some type nowadays for various different reasons, many social news sites launch however very few ever become even relatively successful. So is it...
Author: Lincoln on December 1st, 2008
Category: Social News
Tags: digg clone, Drigg, Pligg, Social Web CMS
Social Web Content Management System (SWCMS) has released 1.0 of their open source social news content management system. SWCMS forked from Pligg after the 9.9.0 release and since then has released hundreds of security fixes, scores of bug fixes, and...
Author: davemackey on October 13th, 2008
Category: Social Web CMS
Tags: open source, Pligg, release, Social Web CMS, swcms