Posts Tagged ‘geek talk’

ZOMG I was Hacked!

January 13th, 2010

No. This is serious business. I am not kidding. I was hacked! laughing

Okay, the better term is defaced. Not hack. Alright, not even defaced too much anyway. What he did (assuming that Rapcik0 is a man; not sure if this Turkish guy is a woman – I doubt that but hey, Trinity was being thought as a man. Okay stop thinking!) was changed my title post to HTML code that redirect to his site.

And the way he got to edit my title post is caused by the reset password vulnerability. Looks like he injected some SQL into the password reset function, and it give access to him. Then he changed the password of my Wordpress account.

Damn.

I thought this hole was fixed prior to Wordpress 2.8.6!

Okay fine. I went to cPanel, checked if he got that access, and apparently not. Reset all my password, and then changed the database. Got my access back, so I upgrade again to the latest Wordpress. Then I undo his change. At first I thought he put the redirection on the index.php, but apparently not. That’s when I realized it was at the post title.

Done!

P/s: Lesson learn – a good precaution is always use strong password, upgrade the security and apply the fixes, yada yada yada. Thank you for this reminder, Rapcik0.

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The Tide of Changes..

August 31st, 2009

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. – Anatole France

Changes. One thing that scared most people. Being in a comfort zone can be lulling; making you numb, slow, and unable to see more than what you’re capable off. Yet this lulling sensation is what we all clinging for, and what we can’t bear to let go.

Or at least you. Not me. See? I can change my theme just like that when I feel like it! tongue

(Ok. Drama tak jadik. I can see that you’re not even laughing. Bad joke).

Anyway, as you can see, there’s been some changes in the blog theme again. Changelog:

  1. Theme being used now is: GreenPark2 by Cordobo.
  2. Advertisement by Nuffnang is back on the sidebar.
  3. Google Adsense is back for individual post.
  4. Imported all the content from my old blog (re-arrange.blogspot.com) to here. Now I have 100 posts! Yeay!
  5. Added plugins for navigation. See the numbers at the bottom of the page?
  6. Added plugins to transform the emoticons to Yahoo! Messenger emoticons. hee hee

Woo hoo! I wasted my weekends doing this!

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(geek)

Anyway, I just gotta try the emoticons. So here goes…

happy tongue laughing rolling on the floor shame on you peace sign whistling kiss love struck big hug not worthy frustrated devil

And this emoticons also worked for the comments. Yeay! big grin

That’s it. I’m done. My blog is combined with Facebook and Twitter, and I controlled both network to only people that I know only. So.. yep, that’s good enough. Performance-wise should be good too, have evaluated all the plugins and ads, and shouldn’t give any problem (if you find anything, or if its slow suddenly.. let me know!)

P/s: I decided not to put the chatbox again. Too many spam I can’t stand it. I know my friends know how to reach me. happy

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What is a browser?

July 20th, 2009

Methink I’m lucky enough to be someone who involved in the computer technical work, so this kind of question is just at a flick of my finger. However, watching this video makes me wonder whether this is ignorance at best, or is it just a success of Google marketing?

Just six facts to get things right:

1) Google is a company. It’s most popular product is Google Search Engine.

2) Google Search Engine is a web application – a big database of information being indexed at the back, and a simple portal-like interface in front. This is where you can input your keywords to search, and it will spit out all kind of information it has.

3) These information were crawled by Google “spider” / “crawler” / “indexer”. These are agents which go to websites, and then indexed the content in the website for certain keywords. So, these are what controls your SERP.

4) SERP is Search Engine Result Page.

5) Google Search Engine is not a browser. But you can run / execute / open Google Search Engine in a browser.

6) A browser is a software application to be used to open / run / execute web application. Examples of browsers are Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome.

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