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Google under competetion? Meet Cuil.com

Cuil.com is the latest search engine to hit the market, and sets sail to compete with Google itself. The new search engine is run by former Google employees, and has already provided its first traffic to this very blog, see the domain entry in my stats which showed up earlier today: Along with a bigger index (they [...]

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• *Update: Okay, I think I located the potential entry to the WP-Forum, which I have read having some security issues coming up lately. It has now been removed from this site. *¬† Alright, not really what I wanted to happen on a Monday evening. I came home, and just before I started to make dinner, I went to check my mail, in there was a mail from an advertiser that an ad was not showing, and naturally I went to the site to check. Lo and behold, my site was hacked, and the hacker installed the c99madshell v. 2.0 on my domain. Searching for information I found only vague information, and never really found out how the ‚Ǩ#"%"‚Ǩ# hacker came in. I started by updating my Wordpress installation to the latest version, and then went hunting. I found the script in my themes folder, where it replaced one the .php files. The only information I found that gave any clue to where to look was here: http://www.devside.net/blog/smf-exploit-like-phpbb-hack I included below screenshot, which is from the same blog-entry (credit where credit is due) since I focused on removing the hack instead of documenting it. I hope the owner does not take offence. Removing it was fairly easy once I knew where to look, but I had to have a serious look around to see where it was hidden. So, what did I learn from this? To backup, backup often, and to always update my Wordpress installations. Have you had a visit? #