Tag: online vulnerability
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21-10 PHP Security Shakeout — this site is safe
On October 21, I woke up to a message telling me there was a critical PHP vulnerability. When I read up on that, I learnt that this was indeed Scary Stuff™, that would allow a hacker to use PHP2Shell to remotely execute code on a host, thereby essentially taking control of that host. It turns…
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How to not get hacked
(yes… I’ve been happily splitting infinitives since before you were born, most likely) Some time ago, I wrote this little article when there was a slew of people with hacked Facebook- and Instagram accounts. It occurred to me that the vast majority of these people made the same mistake: using the same password for different services.…