Command Line

Note to Self: Cleaning up Hacks

by Mike on 4/18/2012

in Command Line, Insecurity, Never Underestimate the Power of Human Stupidity, Perpetual Beta : Release, Spam: Digital Plague or Pure Evil? Discuss., The Intarweb

Sadly, its necessary for me to leave these reminders here: If you get eval(base64 hacked on wordpress/dreamhost I have a shared host on Dreamhost that just got hacked to shit. A fairly standard hack, and nothing particularly inspired, but nevertheless some clients from years ago weren’t too happy. If this happens to anyone else, here’s [...]

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Database Resurrection

by Mike on 11/21/2005

in Command Line, The Joy of Tech, Webloggia

Sometime last July, the Movable Type setup that powered every weblog on our various domains went belly up. All logins failed, password retrievals failed… the database appeared to be empty. But the database was still there, and still flush with all that data. Logging into the web server and running “strings” on the database files [...]

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