Tweet Week: July 12-18, 2010

Selected short messages and links you might have missed if you don’t follow me on Twitter.

July 12, 2010

A lot of WordPress blogs on RackSpace Cloud are still hacked

July 13, 2010

Someone promotes shoponline2011 site via Image search spam. Check Alexa traffic details

July 15, 2010

Just found an #nginx site that redirects search traffic to scareware sites. Previously, such hacks were limited to Apache (mainly)

@baldown Good point. I forgot about this config where nginx is just a reverse proxy for Apache. Thanks.

July 16, 2010

WordPress Redirect Exploit (on MediaTemple)  and suggested clean-up (redirect to qooglesearch .com)

If http://www.UnmaskParasites.com reports script from “ae.awaue .com” for your WP blog, check this

[netcraft.com] Firefox security test add-on was backdoored

July 17, 2010

[forbes.com] “Millions” Of Home Routers Vulnerable To Web Hack

RT @gcluley: Video and detailed analysis of new zero-day Windows .LNK shortcut vulnerability (via @ChetWisniewski)

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