I noticed something very odd in my blog logs today: Lots of requests for things I never wrote! I was getting hundreds of requests for "Christiano Ronaldo 2012 Boots" and other nonsense. A quick search revealed hundreds of links to my site promoting wallpaper images that I don't host, all running through a disused Wordpress plugin. I deleted the file, and couldn't find any hack … [Read more...] about Is the WordPress SEO-Slugs Plugin Hacked Or What?
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How My Blog Became Infected With MW:JS:150 Malware (And How I Fixed It)
This week, two blog readers let me know what Google Chrome was warning them of malware on my blog. I dived in and discovered that, indeed, a nasty, obfuscated JavaScript attack had made its way into my site. Although I was disappointed by the lack of clarity about how to fix it, I believe I was able to remove it last night. Here's what I did. A Nasty Hole in Timthumb.php I've … [Read more...] about How My Blog Became Infected With MW:JS:150 Malware (And How I Fixed It)
How To Make TimThumb Play Nicely With TanTan’s WordPress S3 Plugin
I'm loving the Woo theme for this blog, and especially love that they integrated the cool TimThumb script to automatically resize thumbnails for the main page. But everything stopped working when I added TanTan's Wordpress-S3 plugin to store my images on Amazon's servers. Luckily, I found a fix! The first step was upgrading Woo's version of TimThumb.php. I downloaded the … [Read more...] about How To Make TimThumb Play Nicely With TanTan’s WordPress S3 Plugin
A High-Performance, Low-Memory Apache/PHP Virtual Private Server
I've previously written about my Multi-Server Web Hosting Environment and the how I Tuned Lighttpd For Linux to run as well as possible. But I've been having weird issues with that setup lately and was forced to rebuild the server entirely. While I was at it, I decided to give Apache another try, since the lighttpd hackery I needed to perform to get things like WP-SuperCache … [Read more...] about A High-Performance, Low-Memory Apache/PHP Virtual Private Server
Zend Simple Cloud API = Freedom!
As I pointed out last week, cloud computing does not need traditional consensus-committee standards, at least not yet. The inherent flexibility and programmability of cloud platforms and applications lends a certain flavor of openness to cloud computing that reduces the requirement for (and thus impact of) standards. Furthermore, the amazing creativity currently being applied … [Read more...] about Zend Simple Cloud API = Freedom!