Posted on Wednesday, 30 September, 2009 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
Lately, spam email from supposed IT support have been the most successful spam messages for beating all my various filters. Way to go, guys! Sort of like fake banking scams I don’t really get the dupes who actually provide this information. If someone from said institution contacts you about any of this. You’re account would be working in order for you to get it.
Posted on Tuesday, 22 September, 2009 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
To quote Lorelle: Update your WordPress blog before you continue reading this post. That’s how critical this issue is.
“Otto42 of OttoDestruct, a key WordPress developer and supporter, reports that there is an “attack” on older versions of WordPress right now. The number of sites hit by this is growing every hour. Protect your WordPress blog now: UPDATE NOW!!!”
I sort of have a habit of looking up subscribers to my blog. Thankfully there are not that many of them, so it’s pretty easy. When there’s a new one, I just google it. Two new ones were “OBSCURED EMAIL ADDRESS” and “OBSCURED EMAIL ADDRESS.” Googling these resulted in a slew of warnings on a hack exploit that exists in WordPress installs older than 2.8.4. which can allow nasty things like permalinks being changed to direct people elsewhere, as ArabCrunch points out.
No more bogus ‘respect’ for fundamentalism within open societies. If you literally follow an ancient Holy Text – whether it’s the Koran, the Bible or the Torah – you will hold disgusting views about women, and you should expect to have them criticised and mocked. — Johann Hari