Tweaked for your Pleasure

This article is not really a rant but rather an alert for any that is currently Googling this. I have found on a few websites that I hosted on an older system had random PHP script inserted into the start of the index.php file.

The code below is what is being inserted into index.php files. So far I have not seen it attack any other pages.

However with that said, lets see what this PHP code is doing and hopefully what you can do about it.

You will need to click the article title to be able to see the embedded content.

As you can see this is clearly just a encoded PHP script – much like the same I Read the rest of this entry »

I am not sure how many people on Tweaked for your Pleasure drives beyond virtual gaming and all that but for those that do, I am sure everyone has seen drivers that seems to have never even heard of the highway code – let alone even seem to have seen another person on the road.

So the other day I had one of these rare trips into Grantham where I actually use a car. Anyhow I finally found a car park on the side of the street at which point I parked. The person in front me had loads of room to Read the rest of this entry »

As you may know in the United States right now, corporations are currently fighting for the legal right to be able to censor the Internet at the DNS level for whatever reason they want to make up and regardless what you think – it is a real threat not only in the United States but Europe as well.

Imagine loading up YouTube so that you can watch some new videos from your favorite puppet singer only to find out that the person has been sent to prison, the site the owner had deleted all because a corporation lawyer saw the video and Read the rest of this entry »

Back when IRC first came around it allowed people to contact another person in real-time and some time later, Instant Messaging such as MSN, GTalk and others was born. Over time these IM clients involved to run on just about anything that has a connection to the Internet and thus with this people started to get used to being able to contact anyone at any time and “expect” a reply back right away.

I am sure everyone knows that person who will always keep sending messages when you do not reply in less than a micro second. I am sure you also Read the rest of this entry »