Archive for the “Security” category
UPDATE: Has ZDnet Been Hacked As Well?
by Tony Hung on April 7, 2008
Update: 4.7.08 @ 2115h: Looks like ZDNet was hit, as per John’s comment below, via an xml-rpc hack, and no — they aren’t running an old version of WP either, which makes one wonder how vulnerable the newer versions of (…)
How’s Your Wp-Content/Plugins Folder Doing? Secure? Are You Sure?
by Tony Hung on January 19, 2008
I’m embarassed to say that I actually knew this tip a while ago, but never got around to implementing it until I read about it *again* today. Embarassed because this blog has been hacked a few times, and in a (…)
Facebook Hacked! (Or Rather, The Door Was Left Unlocked)
by Tony Hung on August 12, 2007
Update 0030h: Well, that was quick. Brandy Baker of Facebook has left a comment which explains the leak. It turns out that it was the result of “single bug on a server” that exposed the code to a “small number (…)