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Recent Pligg v1.0.2 Security Vulnerabilities What Others Are Saying?

Recent Pligg v1.0.2 Security Vulnerabilities What Others Are Saying?

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...

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Author: on December 2nd, 2009

Category: Pligg

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Seriously? Pligg Wins 3rd Best Most Promising CMS From Packt Publishing

Seriously? Pligg Wins 3rd Best Most Promising CMS From Packt Publishing

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...

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Author: on November 26th, 2009

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Pligg Spammers And Using Google to Find Pligg V1.0.0 Sites

Pligg Spammers And Using Google to Find Pligg V1.0.0 Sites

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...

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Author: on May 25th, 2009

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DesignFloat and Pligg Hacked Again? Malicious Software Warning

DesignFloat and Pligg Hacked Again? Malicious Software Warning

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...

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Author: on May 22nd, 2009

Category: Pligg

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Bookmarking Demon Claims It’s A Pligg Auto Submission Tool

Bookmarking Demon Claims It’s A Pligg Auto Submission Tool

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...

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Author: on February 22nd, 2009

Category: Pligg

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Pligg 1.0.0 RC1b Tested and Reviewed

Pligg 1.0.0 RC1b Tested and Reviewed

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...

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Author: on February 17th, 2009

Category: Pligg

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Some Things To Consider Before Launching A Digg Type Social News Site

Some Things To Consider Before Launching A Digg Type Social News Site

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...

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Author: on December 1st, 2008

Category: Social News

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Social Web CMS 1.0 Released.

Social Web CMS 1.0 Released.

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...

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Author: on October 13th, 2008

Category: Social Web CMS

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