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Nasty PHP Exploit Rears Its Ugly Head (RFI Attack)

A panicked client of mine contacted me today with concerns about his website. Every few times we would load his company’s homepage, it would show an incorrect website. This site had links to p0rn and other subject matter that a fine business would deem unfit to put on the front page of its website. See the page that was being maliciously loaded here. So I got to work hunting down the source of the hijack.

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Design Changed, Gravatars Added

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After being online for only a few short days, I started to really hate the design of this website. It was too dark or something. I wanted it to feel more open and easy-going and it just plain didn’t. I promised to stop messing with it for a while now though.

I also added Gravatar integration for comments. A Gravatar is a “globally recognizable avatar”. It’s a central server for avatars. My website calls out to the Gravatar server and looks a commenter up by their email address. If they’ve registered with Gravatar, their photo will be returned and placed neatly next to their comment. If they haven’t registered they’ll get an ugly Gravatar logo next to their comment. Neat, huh? Registering is easy and fast, and more and more sites are starting to use the service. So go register.

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