Archive for January, 2012

  • Basic Elasticsearch Installation (Debian/Ubuntu)

    Basic Elasticsearch Installation (Debian/Ubuntu)

    Tutorials January 29, 2012 00:38 4 comments

    This guide is provided to show how to do a basic (vanilla get up and go) install of Elasticsearch (0.18.7), the Elasticsearch Service Wrapper and the required Java Runtime Environment (JRE) (1.7.0_02) on Debian/Ubuntu. This guide will not cover running a dedicated Elasticsearch user. This guide assumes the user has [...]

     
  • Multiple Vulnerabilites in WordPress 3.3.1 or earlier

    Multiple Vulnerabilites in WordPress 3.3.1 or earlier

    WordPress January 25, 2012 19:37 1 comment

    Trustwave’s SpiderLabs Security Advisory TWSL2012-002: Multiple Vulnerabilities in WordPress https://www.trustwave.com/spiderlabs/advisories/TWSL2012-002.txt Published: 1/24/12 Version: 1.0 Vendor: WordPress (http://wordpress.org/) Product: WordPress Version affected: 3.3.1 and prior Product description: WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and publishing platform powered by PHP and MySQL. Credit: Jonathan Claudius of Trustwave SpiderLabs Finding [...]

     
  • Security leak at dreamhost.com

    Security leak at dreamhost.com

    Hosting January 24, 2012 00:00 4 comments

    Knowing that a lot of people use DreamHost for their websites, it’s a bit unsettling to see that suspicious activity was detected within one of their databases and, because of that activity passwords have been reset across for FTP, Shell and VPS customer accounts. If you use DreamHost and have [...]

     
  • Not nearly as much online as i should have been…

    Not nearly as much online as i should have been…

    Just me January 22, 2012 19:07 4 comments

    Looking back over the last few weeks, actually months, i spent considerably less time online than intended. This partly is due to my job which on some days is kinda eating up all my energy, and when coming home i am way to knackered to turn on the computer and [...]

     
  • 000webhost.com Server46 under DDoS for almost 2 weeks

    000webhost.com Server46 under DDoS for almost 2 weeks

    Hosting January 22, 2012 12:04 1 comment

    About two weeks ago server46.000webhost.com was taken down because of an incoming DDoS attack. Amazingly the server is still down and users start wondering if it will ever be back up and running. I admit that it’s kinda hard to believe that the DDoS is still ongoing and to be [...]