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Twitter Updates for 2011-09-15

  • @AmPressInst Where is your site's blog/rss feed? The link in the page footer is dead. #

Twitter Updates for 2011-09-14

  • Why don't more web designers set the site's logo (or more frequently, the site title) to be a link to the site's home page? #

Twitter Updates for 2011-09-11

  • @LiquidWeb Do you kill spammers on your servers? Or just unsubscribe complaints? #

TimThumb.php Vulnerability Scans

Earlier today one of my web sites was scanned for the timthumb.php script. timthumb is a web application that allows for the site to gather and resize images. The script is included in a lot of WordPress themes, such as the list of 332 themes listed at the bottom of this post. If you are using one of these themes, upgrade it, and confirm that timthumb has been upgraded to address its security problems.

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Twitter Updates for 2011-09-09

Twitter Updates for 2011-09-08

  • Just blocked email from bluehornet.com, an email spam/marketing company. #
  • @welcomehomeblog What happened to your RSS feed? Videos aren't showing up in it any longer. #
  • Thank you Michael Stern Hart for Project Gutenberg http://t.co/2anqHlQ #visionary #rip #

Twitter Updates for 2011-09-07

Twitter Updates for 2011-09-01

  • just got spam from a server at krpyt.com. Blocked them, not CAN-SPAM compliant. Optout is bad, no mailing address. #

Twitter Updates for 2011-08-30

  • I wonder what's happening at Chuck's @barkeaterlake I miss those folk. #

Domains to Block on August 29, 2011

The spam problem, while much better than it was a year ago, is still a problem. My SpamAssassin has received spam from all of these domains, in the last three weeks. I am not asserting that these domains have always been used for spam, or that they are now. But in August 2011 they were.

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