I’m disabling comments for a bit. I forgot to setup spam filters when I was fixing the site and have over 1500 comments. Most of it is spam. I hate this because I do get real comments now and then and some need a response. These will be lost among all this spam. So the new policy is you have to create an account to comment.
Category Archives: blog support
Word Press Login Security Issue
This just in from the Internet Storm Center
Juha-Matti pointed out multple reports on a vulnerability in the widely used wordpress blog software that supposedly allows lets remote users reset the administrative password. They all lead to an original post on a full disclosure mailing list.
You can get all the details from the original post – WordPress unauthenticated administrator password reset
You can find the fix here
Basically you just need to change line 190 in wp-login.php from
if ( empty( $key )
to
if ( empty( $key ) || is_array( $key ) )
If line 190 in wp-login.php doesn’t match the example, you should update Word Press.
I’ve already done it here and everything still works. I also tried it on a version of Word Press that isn’t the latest version. I had to search for the string that needed changing because it’s not on line 190 in the older version. I updated the info and everything is working there too.
Trustworthy Conficker Resources
Filed under blog support, botnets, conficker, cybercrime, fix, free software, patch, security, software, spam, video games, virus, Windows
Tagged as conficker, security, virus
Tagged as conficker, security, virus
With all the media hype about conficker, I thought you might like a good collection of trustworthy resources. Beware of websites that have recently registered as “conficker help.” In fact, just avoid them all together. There’s also reports of malicious software masquerading as detection and cleaning tools for Conficker-infected computers, as well as spam offering the same.
There’s no need to try and figure out what’s safe or real and what has more sinister plans in mind. The good folks at dshield.org have been keeping an updated list of third party information on conficker. Here you can find plenty of free conficker detection and removal tools, general information and the microsoft patch. That should help keep you updated, safe and informed.
I’ve also found out about one other real neat way of detecting it, but it’s for more advanced users, so I’m going to make a seperate post about it.
It Was 20 Years Ago Today…
Filed under blog support, free software, software, vidcasts, video, video games, Windows
It was 20 years ago Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. Not quite 20 years to the day, but close enough. In this Ted talk, Tim talks about what is the next step in the evolution of the World Wide Web.
Word Press TV
Filed under blog support, free software, internet tv, software, tutorial, vidcasts, video, video games, Windows
Tagged as video, word press
Tagged as video, word press
Seeing how I’m now running Word Press, it only makes sense that I would tell you about Word Press TV. If you are running Word Press, or are just thinking about using it, you owe it to yourself to give this site a look.
Even though it’s only been up for maybe 2 months, there’s a lot of great content. There’s plenty of How-To videos, for beginners to advanced users. There’s videos about administration, set-up, widgets, publishing, media, plugins, themes, custom design, and more. There is also a section of videos from Word Camp.
I wanted to write about Word Press TV when it first went live, but I haven’t actully spent any amount of time on it, untill recently. Most of them are using vimeo to host their videos, so the quality is execlent. Theses aren’t some junky, pixalated Youtube videos. They are high quality and when I viewed them with HD turned on, the screen captures of in the how-to videos was perfect and crisp and easy to read the all the text in the videos. Even when not in full screen or HD you can read them easily. If only everyone made instructional videos at this quality. Check out the example below.
Getting set up with the WP e-Commerce plugin: settings and configuration
More Site Updates
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I got my hosting and name servers all straightened out now. You will notice the address bar no longer just says http://pccybertek.com for all the posts and links. We now resolve to a complete address for each article making it easier to share or bookmark any page.
I also fixed the settings so anyone can leave a comment now. When I switched this blog over to Word Press not long ago, I never adjusted the settings so anyone coule leave a comment. No longer will you have to create an account to leave a comment. If you would like to create a comment, you are more than welcome to, but it’s no longer required.
State of this Blog
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What’s going on here? There’s good news and some not so good news. The good news is, I am going to continue adding to this blog. I will also finish the previous articles that I started. Since I now have the NewEgg link at the bottom, and if want to help support this blog I encourage you to click on the “Where I buy everything” before you make any purchase from NewEgg, I am able to see what kind of traffic I am getting here. I got to admit, I was pleasantly surprised. There’s more people reading this than I thought. Due to the lack of comments and with how irregular I have been posting here, I figured I was just going through the motions for myself and a few other people. However I am getting quite a few views a day and a definite spike when I do post something new. I’m not expecting to reach thousands of people a day, but there are some of you out there who are reading this and that is encouraging. I will start updating more often.
Now for the not so good news. My wife’s mother has become gravely ill and bed ridden. Rather than put her in a rest home to be forgotten about, we are taking care of her at her home. This requires round the clock attention. Which leaves me little time to write the in depth articles that I wanted to. So for the time being, I will only post small bits of news and information. When I have more time, I will get back to the larger in depth articles I had started.
