By Howdiz | Published:
May 18, 2009
I just wanted to make sure you guys are aware of the Gumblar / Martuz website exploit that is running rampant over the past week and particularly this weekend.
It does a drive by download attack through un-patched vulnerabilities on Windows machines with version of Windows prior Vista (NT 6). It seems to be using vulnerabilities specific to known exploits in flash and acrobat. It not only makes the infected users pc part of a botnet but also scrapes ftp username and passwords and then injects the malicious JavaScript into the users sites. This trojan may change Google search results and redirect to other malicious sites. It also installs a backdoor that connects to 78 .109 .29 .112 and now after its recent mutation into martuz, 95.129.145.58 (Firewalls should be configured to block these IPs).
Sophos is calling it the JSRedir-R script and according to them, last week, this threat blew all previous web based malware out of the water: Read More »
By Howdiz | Published:
May 14, 2009
First of all, let me explain just how much I love google. I know, you love google too, but I’ve been pretty much a google evangelist since 2000. I practically live in google via iGoogle and use gmail, docs, reader and of course search on the daily. That being said, today’s outage, or least disruption in our regularly scheduled programming was a little disturbing and made me realize just how much I rely on google. But this isn’t going to be one of those cautionary tails about the cloud. I understand that shit happens and sometimes things go down. I mean, sometimes the lights go out but you don’t hear PECO apologizing or people nay saying electricity. Read More »
By Kelani | Published:
May 12, 2009
Lastnight’s event at Indy Hall (Classic) welcomed Kiwi-created SilverStripe, an Open Source CMS, to Philly. Sigurd Magnusson, one of the co-creators of SilverStripe gave a presentation about the history of his project, the future of the CMS, and answered some questions from the community. The question that always comes up, and was burning at least one member of the audience’s tongue, is how the SilverStripe project differs from the Holy One - Drupal. I can now very vividly imagine a conversation between Sigurd and Dreys on the topic, which makes me giggle. Read More »
By Kelani | Published:
April 10, 2009
Last week I met with P’unk Ave. to talk about their new project: An Open Source CMS called ‘Apostrophe’. The CMS focuses on editing content in context, and minimalism/simplicity in interface design. At this stage, the CMS is a Symphony Plugin and requires familiarity with the Framework to get up-and-running, which makes it difficult for me to really dig-in just yet.
I’m very excited about the project, nonetheless, and have been thinking alot about CMS lately. Particularity, that fine line between needing an entire platform (like Wordpress, Drupal, Silverstripe) and simply needing some dynamic/CMS driven functionality. Read More »
By Kelani | Published:
April 7, 2009
I’ve started so many versions of echoability with @howdiz, I can’t really recall all of them.
The first one ran on Joomla, that was a nightmare we woke up from relatively quickly. We might have had an early Drupal attempt in there, but I think Wordpress was adopted pretty early on. I’ve been working with Wordpress for almost three years now, and we’re still in love.
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