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  • Ubuntu Center – web control for your ubuntu machine

    I ran across ubuntucenter today, which aims to be a web based control panel for any ubuntu based machine, providing file access, etc. Here’s their summary…

    Ubuntu Center is a web based interface for accessing all kinds of information that’s being stored on your computer running Ubuntu Breezy, Kubuntu, XUbuntu, or even nUbuntu box. Ubuntu Center accomplishes all of this by integrating PHP software licensed under the GPL license in one giant package suitable for use on a Ubuntu computer. This release adds tons of new features and bug fixes and is suitable for everyday use.

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  • Mythtv mythweb error

    After the Mandriva 2006 upgrade I’ve still been looking to find if there is anything ‘not quite right’…. anyway, I’ve run into an issue with mythweb. Mythweb is a web-based interface for the mythtv backend. It basically let’s you browse listings, schedule recordings, see what’s scheduled, etc. For me it’s kind of like checking one of the sites that has tv guide info. It’s even better because it’s local to the machine and let’s me go ahead and set recordings up. (And there are no obnoxious ads, or logins to remember…) Anyway, after the upgrade, the main page is throwing up this message… Fatal error: Call to undefined function preg_replace() in /var/www/html/mythweb/config/conf.php on line 29

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  • Linux php-exploit bot

    Incidents.org writes to remind as that bot’s aren’t just for Windows. The recent PHP exploits have seen the use of the “kaiten” bot. After infection on the system it connects to an IRC server. It would primarily target linux systems. They do give a very good way to blunt most Linux bot-style malwares…

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  • Linux network worm…

    There is a linux network worm (virus) in the wild, which I’ve mentioned already in an earlier post. I did want to take a few moments to highlight this and dispell a few myths. (This is the first linux virus I recall seeing over at SARC in the last couple years….) Myth #1) linux doesn’t get viruses…. bull, this current worm is proof. Myth #2) if linux had bigger market share there would be tons of linux viruses – Maybe, but remember that much of the internet’s backbone runs on linux (all the machines at my providers webhosting company and indeed MANY others)

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  • XML-RPC for PHP vulnerability attack attempts

    Incidents.org is reporting on attacks against a recent XML-RPC vulnerability in PHP. This would affect users of PostNuke, Drupal, b2evolution, Xoops, WordPress, PHPGroupWare and TikiWiki. As far as I know there are fixes for each of these in the most recent versions of the software.

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  • Serious PHP flaw

    PHP which is a widely used scripting language for webpages has been found to have a serious vulnerability. The Inquirer is reporting on the announcement at hardened-php.net that the vulnerabilities are in the XML-RPC for PHP and PEAR XML-RPC libraries. This is apparently an eval() vulnerability similar to one earlier in the year.

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  • Google search engine crawling experiment

    Recently I’ve had an experiment with the way Google crawls a site. I had a client site that had not been spidered in spite of being submitted to Google a good while back. I looked at the site and saw nothing amiss. There was plenty of text on the page everything looked good. I found their page in google but their was no cached text.

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  • List of Open Source software Packages

    The following is long, but likely not complete.

    This is a list of open-source software packages: (more…)

  • Phish down – finally

    Finally, I just checked and ~80 hours since my first emails the Bank of the West phishing site is finally down. (~32 hours since contacting the ISP and 8-10 hours since contacting Bank of the West.) I suspect the ISP probably is the one responsible as I’ve found 24-48 hour response time for ISP’s with virus complaints. (Note to self, first round of complaints should probably go to ALL contacts that might be directly responsible, domain owners, ISP and even spoofed company.) I hate that it took so long, but I’m glad that it’s down. I feel like I actually have accomplished something with all the time I’ve spent on it this week. (more…)