[securityalerts] New Moodle releases 1.9.6 and 1.8.10: Security fixes

[R P Herrold]

On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, Lisa Kachold wrote:

> Moodle announces more security issues.
>
> By sending out this "advance security notice" of known exploits to
> registered Moodle sites before the security fixes and "press release"
> it's clear that Moodle does not fully appreciate the state of web
> security today.   Literally thousands of web systems exploiters are
> already targeting school based Moodle php/mysql sites!

and so ?  so are sendmail and bind and the Linux kernel each 
of which announce their holes as well

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I would read this that moodle cares enough to run a security 
alerts ML exploder, and that they care enough to use it.  It 
seems like sour grapes to complain that the 'free soup' is not 
seasoned as you like it.

-- Russ herrold