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Oops. Massive Attack: Half A Million Microsoft-Powered Sites Hit With SQL Injection. A new SQL injection attack aimed at Microsoft IIS web servers has hit some 500,000 websites, including the United Nations, UK Government sites and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. While the attack is not necessarily Microsoft’s ...
A robot from Digg.com has been rapidly running through everything at LGF, including images, with multiple hits per second. It’s doing this despite the following lines in our robots.txt file: User-agent: * Crawl-delay: 600 This rule is supposed to limit the amount of hits from all robots to no more ...
LGF is in the top 100 political blogs at the interesting web site wikio.com: Wikio: Politics.
This weekend our aging, creaky, rather unfriendly URL scheme got an extreme makeover, courtesy of the Apache htaccess file and mod_rewrite. The cool thing is that this redesign doesn’t break any old URLs; if you’ve bookmarked an LGF page, or if you follow an older link from another site, it ...
LGF, Technology, Internet, URLs, mod_rewrite, Apache, htaccess
Just received a very troubling email from a reader in Jakarta, Indonesia (confirmed with a trace), where the government is apparently trying to block web sites that have posted Geert Wilders’ Fitna video. The Indonesian authorities have put the clampers on several sites like YouTube over the Fitna ...
Our post about zombie combat may have confused a few readers, but here’s a zombie threat that’s not a joke: Zombie Computers Decried As Imminent National Threat. SAN FRANCISCO — Gangs of thousands of zombie home computers grinding out spam, committing fraud and overpowering websites are the most vexing ...
The last official beta version of Firefox 3 is out, it’s supposed to be even faster and most of the bugs are supposed to have been fixed, and it probably isn’t going to change too much more for the final release: Firefox 3 beta 5 now available for download. ...
Islamic hackerz defaced another Fitna fan site today; Jawa has the scoop: Fitna Website Hacked by Cyberterrorists!
LGF, Internet, Blogosphere, Hacking, Security, fitna, Militant Islam
Yellow Limes discovers another New Black Panther Party group registered at Barack Obama’s web site.
LGF, Election 2008, Barack Obama, New Black Panther Party, Internet
Since the subject of downloading video clips has come up in relation to Fitna, here are a couple of tools that will let you download from just about any video sharing site: With KeepVid, you paste in the URL of a page containing a video, and it gives you a ...
Let’s check the PHP error log, shall we, and see what kind of spambots we’ve caught in our trap? When I installed our new spambot blocking code yesterday, I made sure to log all email script accesses that didn’t pass the token verification procedure. This lets me collect a list ...
LGF, Internet, Blogosphere, Technology, Spam, Bots, captcha, jQuery, Javascript, Security
Here’s an update to yesterday’s report on the spambot infestation at LGF, attacking our contact form and “email an article” form: both forms have been available and active since yesterday afternoon, and not one spam email has gotten through since I installed the token-based method (using the jQuery Javascript library) ...
LGF, Internet, Blogosphere, Technology, Spam, Bots, captcha, jQuery, Javascript, Security
Oh brother. This morning a spambot of some kind finally got past the rather weak Javascript obfuscation I was using to hide the address of our contact form script, and my Inbox was filled with hundreds of porn/gambling spam emails, sent directly through the script using proxy IP addresses of ...
LGF, Internet, Blogosphere, Technology, Spam, Bots, captcha
Barack Obama’s campaign web site has a section where supporters can register and form groups (like a mini-MySpace), and Fox News reported yesterday on a group started by the New Black Panther Party, which of course embarrassed the Obama campaign into removing it. They issued a statement (typically blaming Fox ...
LGF, Election 2008, Barack Obama, New Black Panther Party, Internet
For no particular reason other than as an excuse for an open thread while I broil some salmon, here’s the (short version of the) to-do list for LGF Blog Engine Enhancements. 1. A ‘favorites’ function that will let you save and browse through a personalized list of comments and posts ...
Stand back! It’s a blog developer cage match! Blog Fight! WordPress and Movable Type Square Off! Looks like Anil Dash—who rather famously tried to smear me and LGF in our early days—has put his foot in it again. (Yes, LGF’s detractors have been pulling the same stunt for a long ...
LGF, Internet, Blogosphere, Movable Type, WordPress, Technology
The fourth beta version of Firefox 3 has been released, with significant speed improvements in its Javascript engine. I’ve been running some simple tests with LGF and it seems to be about twice as fast at some important Javascript operations—for example, looking up page elements by their ID attributes. ...
Wow. As someone very concerned with web site security, it just blows me away that a company thinks they can use publicly available URLs with no authentication to provide services to paying customers. This is Web Security 101: do not rely on “hidden” URLs, because someone will find them: MobiTV ...
With nearly 10,000 votes, the results from yesterday’s OS poll are a bit surprising; Windows XP had the largest percentage (58%), as expected, but LGF readers apparently prefer Mac OS X at a rate about 4 times that of the general population (21%). So here’s another poll, to find out ...
Pakistan decided to block access to YouTube from Pakistani IP addresses, to protect the ummah from exposure to Dutch MP Geert Wilders’ heinous film of blasphemy, criticizing the Koran. But they ended up blocking access to YouTube for a large part of the world. Oops. Pakistan, YouTube & The Dutch ...
Today I received more than a dozen emails from concerned readers, informing me that the content filtering service 8e6 Technologies had suddenly started blocking Little Green Footballs at their workplaces, with a message warning them it was for “Hate & Discrimination.” OK. Well. So I emailed 8e6 Technologies (excuse the ...
Another American working with Al Qaeda in Somalia?
Let’s have a moment of silence, please, for the demise of Netscape Navigator. The first browser I ever used. Sob. I’ll miss ... actually, no, I won’t really miss it. It birthed the web as we know it. But February 1 marks the demise of Netscape Navigator, the first ...
It’s sort of “Dear Abby” (“Dear Abbas?”) for deranged murderers and decapitators, as militant Muslims all over the world seek answers from al-Qaida. CAIRO, Egypt - Sympathizers submitted hundreds of questions to al-Qaida deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri’s “on-line interview” before a recent deadline. Among them: Why hasn’t al-Qaida attacked ...
Once again the Jawa Report has discovered American companies hosting terrorist web sites for the Taliban, a violation of the law. You can help shut them down by using the contact info posted by Dr. Rusty: Official Taliban Websites Hosted in US.