[TriLUG] OT: Wordpress Hack

[Scott Lambdin]

Except, of course, for LolCode.

http://www.globalnerdy.com/2007/05/28/lolcode-the-lolcat-programming-language/

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Allen Freeman <knieveltech at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Of course. There are plenty of reasons to hate <your language of choice>.
> All programming languages suck, each in it's own way.
>
> --- On Fri, 6/5/09, Kevin Kreamer <kevin at kreamer.org> wrote:
>
> From: Kevin Kreamer <kevin at kreamer.org>
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: Wordpress Hack
> To: "Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion" <trilug at trilug.org>
> Date: Friday, June 5, 2009, 12:27 AM
>
> There are plenty of reasons to hate PHP, this particular insecure code
> notwithstanding.
>
> Kevin
>
> On Thursday, June 4, 2009, Allen Freeman <knieveltech at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Neat trick, blaming insecure code on the language.
> >
> > --- On Thu, 6/4/09, Tarus Balog <tarus at opennms.org> wrote:
> >
> > From: Tarus Balog <tarus at opennms.org>
> > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: Wordpress Hack
> > To: "Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion" <trilug at trilug.org>
> > Date: Thursday, June 4, 2009, 11:46 PM
> >
> >
> > On Jun 4, 2009, at 3:07 PM, Mark Turner wrote:
> >
> >> A number of my blogs were recently compromised. Same story: WP 2.7.1. I
> think it was an XMLRPC attack:
> >> http://www.markturner.net/2009/05/27/mt-net-recovers-from-another-hack/
> >
> > Man, I hate PHP.
> >
> > (sigh)
> >
> > This was actually embedded in an old post, not in a comment, which I
> found weird.
> >
> > As for users, when I get a registration that I don't recognize or one
> that doesn't post anything pretty much immediately, it gets deleted.
> >
> > Thanks - I'll write Wordpress.
> >
> > -T
> >
> > P.S. If you do a search on some of the strings in that hack on Google,
> you'll see *a lot* of sites with it.
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