After some work on the Novo Geek website this weekend and adding some extra content to the site, I was suprised to find out this morning that my Novo Geek website was down. Strangely enough all the other sites hosted on my server were up and running. So feeling a little confused I logged on the server and tried to run a few commands ... uh oh ... Input/Output error after every command I tried to run .. this was going to be bad.

Being a professional Website and Web-application developer, I always get quite frustrated when it comes time to ensuring that the site displays exactly the same in all the mainstream (and sometimes not so mainstream) browsers in order to ensure that the users experience with the site is the same.

I saw this article on Linux Security.com and thought it might be a good idea to post it here as well. Basically there is a major security vulnerability in the Java Spring Framework as there as no default checking to make sure the users are only submitting fields that are visible in the form.