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New Wordpress Permalink Exploit or Hack

Friday, September 4th, 2009

Today I found my permalinks were all screwed up, and guess what I found another admin popped up from who knows where. :) Was easy enough to fix once I found this article, http://www.journeyetc.com/2009/09/04/wordpress-permalink-rss-problems/.

I’ve been looking around the net to try and find the actual exploit (milw0rm, packetstorm etc.) haven’t been able to find it. I’m guessing it’s private still. Hopefully wordpress fixes this issue soon because from what I’ve read all versions of wordpress are vulnerable right now.

That of course can’t be good can it? Regardless, I’ve went through and upgraded everything possible including plugins, wordpress, and I upgraded some things on my server.In the mean time I’m going to look around for anything else that was messed with and change some things :)

Anyone else hit with this?

UPDATE: Seems like there was some confusion about which versions of WordPress are effected, it seems you’re safe so long as you’re running 2.8.4. When my blog was attacked, I was running WP 2.8.3. Usually I update right away, this time I didn’t. That’s what I get for slacking off :)

MyInLife Electronic Cigarette Affiliate Program

Monday, May 11th, 2009

Ok, so I joined the myinlife electronic cigarette affiliate program. Yea they’re overpriced and maybe not as good as a DSE901 or Dura-C. Maybe they are, I haven’t tried them. All I know is I want to get the word out about Electronic Cigarettes, and if you want to call me greedy go ahead. My purpose is not really greed, I just want to get the word out like I said. Doing that takes time and effort, and maybe I would rather be paid for my efforts.

It’s not to get users started on the wrong foot either, I think these can be compared closely to a DSE901. No matter what, it spreads the word about E-Cigs and I’m all for that. I think more and more people should know about them. Who’s to say InLife E-Cigs aren’t a good product anyway? Surely not me because I haven’t bought one. Maybe I will if I earn enough through them and then give a review. I’ll tell you what, if there was an affiliate program for the Janty Dura-C and every other E-Cig I would be the first to promote them. Guess what? There’s not. So I’m stuck. Either I promote through MLM and get paid, or I promote for free. Promoting for free doesn’t pay the bills :( Also, PPC costs money to run and if I’m  not getting paid to drive traffic and spread the word then I’m LOSING money.

Anyway, this program is MLM, or multi-level marketing. If I make a sale then I get $30, I would also make money from referrals when they make money. Pretty much like a pyramid scheme, no? The thing to keep in mind is you will get your $30 per sale whether you refer people or not. It only costs $30 to sign up, and if you make one sale you’ll get $30.

Another thing to consider is that if you do get referrals/buys  you’ll be smoking e-cigs for free in a way.

I spoke to someone about this and some do claim InLife E-Cigs are high quality, but I don’t know. I’m just upset there aren’t more affiliate programs for e-cigs I’m familiar with. That’s life, you can’t always “Have it your way” like Burger King :)

Conficker Virus

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

No April Fools from me, but I thought it was kind of funny people freaking out over this virus, so I made this video. Enjoy :)

Does Google Own the Internet?

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

I have been thinking, so much is done through Google, what would happen if Google suddenly disappeared. Google owns YouTube, Blogger, Gmail, FeedBurner, and all the other assorted Google apps.

It’s pretty obvious that Google owns a good chunk of the internet. If, suddenly it disappeared, would Yahoo take over again? Or would it be a struggle between Yahoo and MSN? Millions of people wouldn’t have their e-mail anymore. Some might not even know how to find another search engine :) Where would everyone go that’s currently on YouTube? How about Blogger?

Sure, there’s other places they could go, but would they be able to keep up with the massive new influx of traffic?

I’ve been thinking to myself, is Google a monopoly of sorts? If it is, that can’t be good. A monopoly is never a “good” thing for the users, even if they are free services. Google makes massive amounts through advertisers paying them. There’s very little competition, even from Yahoo and MSN. Everyone uses Google. I’m willing to bet even people that use MSN and Yahoo go to Google occasionally.

Google is everywhere, is it the big brother of the Internet? Google has so much power over anything and everything you see on the Internet, it does become at least somewhat scary.

Here’s a cool video on the subject I found through YouTube (AKA Google)