Posts tagged with 'hack'


GoDaddy hacking admission

Way back when (like, over 4 years ago now), I wrote up a blog post (GoDaddy shared Windows hosting compromised) about an issue I was seeing when this site was hosted on GoDaddy about a PHP hack. I’ve helped several people who were hit by the same hack, showing how they could monitor for it and clean it up if they had the same issue. Since then, I’ve moved this site over to Azure where, to be blunt, security is tighter. […]

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Are you a web dev? FFS: update your libraries!

I’ve mentioned this a couple of times: I log 404 errors on this, my blogging site. A couple of valid reasons I suppose: to make sure that the content I upload is accessible, and to ensure that my URL redirections to my older blog (on a new domain) are working properly. […]

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Dozy PHP hackers

One of the things I enjoy is reading the log of all 404 errors this site generates when people follow a bad link, mistype a URL, or deliberately try and find holes in the site so that they can hack it. […]

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GoDaddy shared Windows hosting compromised

A week or so ago, I talked briefly about some issues I was having with this blog and my previous static site on GoDaddy’s shared Windows hosting (the Deluxe version if you’re interested). It involves mysterious PHP files and modifications to my web.config files. […]

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