Security analysts have detected an ongoing attack that uses a huge number of computers from across the Internet to commandeer servers that run the WordPress blogging application.
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How to Fix and Cleanup the TimThumb Hack in WordPress
So if you remember correctly, there was a security issue with the TimThumb script in August which was fixed. However still to our surprise, many sites are still using the old version. We have fixed three sites so far in the past month, one being yesterday. So it makes sense to simply write a step …
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Cleaning Up the TimThumb Hack
Several of my websites were hacked this week using the TimThumb exploit. The issue has been known for a couple weeks now.
How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking
In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Twitter account was compromised, and used as a platform to broadcast racist and homophobic messages. And worst of all, my AppleID account was broken into, and my hackers used it to remotely …
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Plesk Checking to see if you have been attacked / infected
So you have patched your server, the hacker can’t get in again – so now we need to tidy up any files which may have been added. In my case I found 13 rogue perl scripts within cgi-bin folder of different domains. Each file had a random filename eg. motherboard.pl / preconnective.pl / etc. and …
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Xbox 360 Links
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