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Updating wp-ban to include bad URLs

I’ve posteda while back. Now I’m getting tired of these bozos trying to hack my system in vain, wasting my bandwith and driving up fake page views on my StatPress. So I decided to patch wp-ban to include what I considered bad URLs.
Since I’ll be using wp-ban, it should go without saying that you need [...]

Posted on September 6th, 2009 under Security  •  2 Comments

_PHPLIB[libdir] Cross Site Scripting Exploit Explained

Lately, I’ve seen an increased attack of bad people trying to run XSS exploit on this website using _PHPLIB[libdir] exploit. It alarmed me a bit as I didn’t really know about that particular exploit. Obviously I wanted to make sure that my site is not vulnerable for it. So I did a little bit digging.
For [...]

Posted on July 21st, 2009 under PHP, Security  •  No Comments