From the WordPress Development Blog:
Version 3.0.4 of WordPress, available immediately through the update page in your dashboard or for download here, is a very important update to apply to your sites as soon as possible because it fixes a core security bug in our HTML sanitation library, called KSES. I would rate this release as “critical.” (more…)
… it’s time to go 0-3, I think — WordPress 3.0.3 is out – but the update is really only applicable to remote publishing-enabled systems…
WordPress 3.0.3 is available and is a security update for all previous WordPress versions.
This release fixes issues in the remote publishing interface, which under certain circumstances allowed Author- and Contributor-level users to improperly edit, publish, or delete posts.
For what it’s worth: an alleged SEACOM cable break a few kilometers from Alexandria – eta of 2.5hrs or so…
Don’t forget to upgrade inplace or download! It is a mandatory security update for all previous WordPress versions, and upgrades are easy 
Seems like there is an upstream cable fault (being investigated) that has caused international browsing from South Africa outward to fail.
Pings reveal failing terminations on the entry points into continental Europe and the US.
IS has reported it as follows, all others are piggy-backing (or just silent on the matter): (more…)