This was a tip that we just had to share with everyone. Our email tool of choice here at Silva Tech, is Mozilla Thunderbird with … Read More
Filezilla is great tool for any web service provider, but we have on more than one occasion been bit with a rather annoying error that stops our entire transfer process forcing us to close and re-open the tool.
You’ll usually get something like:
Status: ftpcontrolsocket.cpp(1750): Waiting for replies to skip before sending next command…
To continue our series on WordPress hacks and cleanups, we present a very quick and dirty method of detecting and cleaning up wordpress based pages that may have been infected by the good ol’ Base64 hack. The PERL code listed below recursively searches down the root web folder, searches files for any hints of a “base64” string that has a middle content greater than 500 (arbitrary but usually pretty spot on for this attack) and replaces the instance.
This is a VERY VERY quick and dirty script and will not guarantee that you’re site is clean of all of the hundreds of variants of this hack-attack (see our post on changing tactics)
Magento’s internal search engine is really really rough around the edges. Its very inflexible and sometimes tedious to populate and maintain.
Thankfully, there is a very low-cost option from a vendor that knows a little bit about search engines. Google Site Search! Its easy to install within a Magento installation (and replace the default search capabilities), and takes a few minutes to configure.
Last week we mentioned a few plugins about finding and cleaning hacks. With that same client, we found a new vector of attack that is … Read More
We have been seeing an increase recently in the amount of hacked WordPress installations. One of the largest causes of a site being exploited, has … Read More
So we work on Magento ecommerce solutions quite frequently. For the most basic setups, both the community and enterprise version perform like a charm. They … Read More
Starting to configure a new Dell PowerConnect 6248, I realized that my new laptop didn’t have a serial interface to configure the initial router setup … Read More
Using our quick prototype Google Earth tool, we put together a map from the USGS showing the Magnitude 5.6 – Oklahoma earthquake. Preview Google Earth … Read More
Recently we were impressed with another LinkedIn developer project programmatically pulled together user LinkedIn network data. We decided to put together a prototype that would … Read More
