Security

Upgrade your WordPress to 2.2.1 now!

27 June 2007 4 Comments

WordPress developer team always try to catch up and fix bugs and security issues as soon as users report it. Although the updates release frequently, whether you want it or not, you must always do the upgrade to all of your WordPress powered sites.

Usually each upgrade has new bug fixes and security patches. So you must download the latest WordPress version and upgrade your WordPress after the download finished. Don’t delay the upgrade or you might will end up by getting a message by someone on your website.

But don’t think your WordPress site is safe just because you have upgraded it to the latest version. There are many ways the attackers can do to hack or to deface your website. So you must do the database backup daily (recommended) or at least weekly.

Hong Kiat owned!

26 June 2007 15 Comments

Just found out that one of my internet friend’s website who is a problogger got hacked today. Hong Kiat’s website was hacked by someone (no names were found on that website though). Here is the text left by the hacker.

You think ur problogger ? Think again …
You think ur too good for blog ad networks ? Think again …
You think ur blog readers love your content ? Think again …

You’re n00b! W3R3 1337s!

H4X0R3d! 0WN3D! PWND!

Pirates of the Caribbean 3 is a Trojan!

27 May 2007 8 Comments

It is not actually that the movie Pirates of the Caribbean 3 is a trojan but the spammed email sent to your email contains a trojan.

troj-pirates

The spammed email promising a trailer of the film “Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At the World’s End” and the chance of free tickets. But the truth is there is no preview or free tickets but a copy of Troj/Yar-A Trojan horse attached in the email.

Congratulations to Firefox Users!

19 May 2007 Leave a Comment

I must wish my congratulations to all Firefox users because you guys are better patchers than other internet browser users.

Based on analysis by Secunia, 5.19 percent of all Firefox 2 users had missed security updates. 5.40 pecent for IE7. 9.61 percent for IE 6 users. And Opera was the most abandoned in security updates which is 11.96.

“People have to choose to use Firefox,” said Mike Cherry, an analyst with the Directions on Microsoft research firm.

Opera was the least to be patched because the updates is not done automatically instead you need to check the update by yourself by clicking on Help and Check for update. But for Firefox users, the updates are delivered via the browser itself. So, Firefox users are more secure and up to date.

More read at Techworld Computer & Internet Security News .

Firefox users are better patchers [via Techworld] [tags]firefox, opera, internet explorer[/tags]

Put more security in Ubuntu

19 May 2007 1 Comment

I just got my Ubuntu CDs couple of days ago and currently I’m looking what things should I need to protect my Ubuntu that I will install once I buy a new hard disk for my PC. I want to make it dual boot. ;))

Luckily, IT Security (more about IT Security) had make a post about how you can protect your Ubuntu by installing must have softwares and modifying some Ubuntu configuration settings.

Here are short tips you need to do to modify the default settings.

1. Reconfiguring shared memory

Open your text editor, open the file “/etc/fstab” and add the following line of code:

tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults,ro 0 0

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