Hacked?

So apparently my server got hacked, currently trying to find out how, why and by whom. The message left was:

HACKED BY EJDER21

ejder21@islamicihad.asli

So yeah.. bugger!

It appears I was running an old version of DotProject which was vulnerable to RFI. The hackers used this to create a defaced index page. It appears this was all they did, but I’m still going to update all software, and change passwords on the server.

If you’ve had the same problem, I suggest updating DotProject, or any other software you have on your server, forums, cms’ etc.

I was going to design a new summer theme for my blog last night, but obviously I was tied up sorting this crap out. I’m glad no real damage has been done, but it doesn’t half piss me off that they just deface any website for no reason. Granted, it alerted me to the fact that there was a vulnerability, but hey, there’s a contact form on here.. send me an email!

So hopefully if I’m not out this eve I’ll get on with a wordpress theme, I’m also working on a little tech project in VB and using my webcam to create a musical instrument >=D.

More Blog Soon.

Microsoft Bing – Image Search

So I’ve been playing around with Microsoft Bing today, just with the image search, and I actually really like it!

I’m as suprised as you, I really expected something boring, unintuitive and useless. I figured it wouldn’t be really any different to Google’s search, but with worse results.  Au contraire!
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Bing – Microsoft’s Last Ditch Attempt at the Search Engine Market


Bing, is the new name for yet another re-launch Windows Live (MSN) Search, the search engine provided by Microsoft as a rival to Google.

Microsoft are launching an $80M – $100M ad campaign for the launch which is to occur in June.

Who knows what they’re USP is, currently Live Search isn’t particularly attractive to me personally, in that I mean, they’ve not convinced me to change my home page from google to live search.

Let’s wait and see what they do with Bing.

Please see my followup post here: Microsoft Bing – Image Search

Life After Crap

My Dad is starting up a new website called Life After Crap. It will be a haven for stories and resources about ( and written by ) people who have gotten through crap in their life, to help those who may be going through the same stuff.

He needs your help though, he’s looking to get a decent amount of stories before launching the site, so if you’ve ever gotten through something you thought was crap, write it down, write how you got through it, and send it off to him.

http://www.lifeaftercrap.com

How do you hide uTorrent? [ANSWERED]

I’ve been wondering for a while now, how to hide uTorrent from the system tray, it seems it’s fairly simple, but google’s results are completely unhelpful and most of the first page leads to forums that go off-topic, or yahoo answers which result mainly in “you cant.”.

Truth is, you can, and it’s extremely easy!

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