I noticed something very odd in my blog logs today: 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 or intrusion, but I’m still wondering what exactly was going on here!
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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.
SlideShare Embed Injects ScoreCard “Market Research” Junk
It appears that SlideShare is injecting a tracking code from “ScoreCard Research”, a research firm, when their slideshow embed code is used. This would be bad enough on its own, but this embedded JavaScript seems to interfere with the WordPress editor and I saw no indication of an opt-in or privacy policy regarding this.
Back From the Pile: Interesting Links, January 14, 2011
This regular series features highlights from the week. It was another big one for me, with my Network Computing writing gig starting up, the announcement of my Storage for Server Virtualization seminar series, and the finalization of Tech Field Day for February.
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!
