First of all thumbs up if you noticed January and February LOL mails missing. . Today I got this email to my ruchirablog email address from a dude looked like he read my huawei HSDPA modem unlocking guide!
DAMN I need to start hacking class with “How to hack email accounts and facebook” thingys. BULLSHIT!
You might not know I’m big fan of wrestling even I know its all scripted fake. 18th February Friday night smackdown held 6 man tag team match. After few minutes Rey Mysterio hit 2 in 1, 619 to Dolph Ziggler and wade barret. Watch how dolph ziggler sets to 619 position to 2nd rope.
Recently one of my readers asked me that “Are you ran out of things to write? Why did you published 1 year old scene now” Well I’m very busy these days building my career on Telecommunications Engineering and Cisco track. But this doesnt means im out of time to write but when combined with personal things I’m little behind the scene these days. Never mind lets get to the topic,
Information
Linode is a XEN VPS provider based on 5 top data centers in USA and UK with unmatchable reputation around the web. They have in house developed Control panel to administrate the servers unlike many providers using third party scripts. Its CEO is Cold Fusion app developer and most of the web site sections including control panel are built on Adobe Cold Fusion programming language. Linode gives you freedom to install many Linux OS available and also your custom kernels. 100s of (maybe thousands) of Linode host machines running Ubuntu as host (dom0) to its virtualizer XEN. And its common truth that most of users of linode are using Ubuntu.
yesterday Ruchirablog hit a uptime record of 100 days and that’s the thing forced me to write this review!
Do you know that this blog got hacked about a year ago?
Yes thats real screenshot that I taken. Most interesting thing was that my friend told that something is wrong with my blog when I was at school. He used mobile phone to access to this blog.
On that day I was at school and my friend asked me
Hey what the heck that black page doing in your blog
I didn’t knew what he was talking about and I asked him I dont know maybe you visited wrong web site that’s impossible to have such page on my blog. ( He used a mobile phone so he didn’t saw that green lines mentioning “hacked by DZ ghosts” so he said black page )
It didn’t took me long to understand that my blog maybe hacked. So I immediately returned from school to home because if hackers got access to my wordpress instance they might have got my admin password and that means my emails,Online banking such all will get compromised. ***DAMN I used same password for all***
After about 30mins I got to home and ran to computer and opened my blog, SHIT it was hacked and I could hear audio song playing on my blog. It was broadcasting from .DE domain.
Login in to wordpress admin panel worked and so I realized that my data didn’t got erased.
What happened?
Hackers injected their codes to index.php it didn’t took much time to find out that. And after replacing codes from default wordpress files it worked.
I dont know why they targeted my blog. maybe came from google search by searching meta codes? But thats very small chance because they got in because I leaved my HOME DIRECTORY 777 CHMODED my bad!!!!
Lessons learned
Some times we need to chmod our directories 777 or 755 to make some changes of plugins and such. So make sure to set safe permissions if you changed it. Never leave it 777
If your web site got hacked first look at code of index.html or index.php that might be the only page that hackers changed.
Don’t use same password for all websites. Use a password which contain at least 10 characters with numbers.
Everything went as predicted As mentioned in this blog post I told you guys that google wont simply stop updating page rank.
Page rank update started to roll on about 48 hours ago and most of people reporting that they got changes. In this blog I don’t see any changes yet (its PR3 now) and actually I don’t wish to see new changes because I didn’t focused much on link building on past months.
One of organization site I manage got page rank dropped to 0 from 1. Actually its a school site which I didnt updated within last 6 months so google is correct on that! Matt Cutts from google is leaking official information about page rank update on his twitter page according to him it didn’t completed yet.
So what are the changes that you got? There is comments section to discuss
For about a year I had mystique wordpress theme on my blog and it was really nice theme! But it was too popular and used by many bloggers as their wordpress theme. So its not very good to have a theme like that for branding purposes no matter what quality things that you post eye contact will be problem there!
There are many bad bots in Internet. Some of them scans your server ports some of them tries to inject malicious codes and cookies. And also there are many methods to block those unwanted bots. Everyone doesn’t have money to get a hardware based firewall to protect their servers,
Some companies claims that they have new way to block malicious traffic but they arent always reliable and accurate most recent example is this.
Welcome to a whole new way of keeping your blog, forum, guestbook, wiki or content management system free of link spam. Bad Behavior is a PHP-based solution for blocking link spam and the robots which deliver it.
Bad Behavior complements other link spam solutions by acting as a gatekeeper, preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place. This keeps your site’s load down, makes your site logs cleaner, and can help prevent denial of service conditions caused by spammers.
Bad Behavior also transcends other link spam solutions by working in a completely different, unique way. Instead of merely looking at the content of potential spam, Bad Behavior analyzes the delivery method as well as the software the spammer is using. In this way, Bad Behavior can stop spam attacks even when nobody has ever seen the particular spam before.
Bad Behavior is designed to work alongside existing spam prevention services to increase their effectiveness and efficiency. Whenever possible, you should run it in combination with a more traditional spam prevention service.
Have you heard that facebook is going to shut down on march 15th ? Its fake but the news site published that news is gaining huge amount of traffic for last 48 hours. DAMN I wish I published that post