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Josh Wieder: Pandora account compromise warning message

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Tips for Fellow Admins. My Website and Me. Sunday, August 14, 2016. Pandora account compromise warning message. Here is a copy of the email I was sent by Pandora to inform me that my account was compromised kindof but not really and it was totally not their fault. This is somewhat old news (I received this email July 6th) but the more copies of this online the better, IMO. On the internet along with, presumably, one of the bazillion passwords associated with it. Who posted this information? I get that ma...

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Josh Wieder: Wikileaks

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Tips for Fellow Admins. My Website and Me. In March of 2015 I identified a number of files available for download through the Wikileaks.Org. Website that contain malicious scripts. All of the infected files were part of the email spool from the defense contractor Stratfor. That hacktivist group Lulzsec. To help those visitors I have created this page, which contains links to all of my posts concerning Wikileaks, as well as links to other websites that have followed up on the malware investigation. Macro;...

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Josh Wieder: I was interviewed by Fox News today

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Tips for Fellow Admins. My Website and Me. Tuesday, October 18, 2016. I was interviewed by Fox News today. I was asked by Fox News to comment on how Wikileaks might be able to publish documents in spite of a reported shutdown of Julian Assange's internet access within the Ecuadorian embassy. You can read more about Wikileaks' reported IT trouble at the AP. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. My Tweeter (For Twits). My Web Hosting Talk Profile.

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Josh Wieder: Contributions & Donations

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Tips for Fellow Admins. My Website and Me. Are you an incredibly awesome human being? Did something I publish here on my website help you fix something at work that you couldn't figure out? Or maybe you just think one of my posts was worth knowing or in the public interest? If charity isn't your style, you may be interested in hiring me. I am a Linux systems administrator with experience in a wide variety of tasks and I am available as a for-hire consultant or as an independent contractor. A large part o...

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Josh Wieder: A nasty pair of MySQL exploits grant attackers system root from any database user

http://www.joshwieder.net/2016/11/a-nasty-pair-of-mysql-exploits-grant.html

Tips for Fellow Admins. My Website and Me. Tuesday, November 8, 2016. A nasty pair of MySQL exploits grant attackers system root from any database user. Four days ago I received an email from Dawid Golunski through the list illustrating one of the more brutal pair of security vulnerabilities I have seen recently. Here's how it works. The next caveat is that the 2nd exploit also depends on using file-based mysql logging. Using syslog will avoid trouble. And even without the use of the 2nd exploit, an atta...

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Josh Wieder: Dell, how I hate thee (let me count the ways)

http://www.joshwieder.net/2016/08/dell-how-i-hate-thee-let-me-count-ways.html

Tips for Fellow Admins. My Website and Me. Friday, August 26, 2016. Dell, how I hate thee (let me count the ways). A Dell "feature" that appears to be designed to force customers to use only Dell parts reduced the speed of a set of SSDs one of my customers installed on their rack-mountable R900 server by a factor of 1000. And a ton of other things we all take for granted like the device mapper are part of the 4.* kernel. More importantly, the R900 isn't a new server. This is an 8 year old box. Th...Initi...

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Josh Wieder: Building a new gaming PC (with some digs about NZXT)

http://www.joshwieder.net/2016/08/building-new-gaming-pc-with-some-digs.html

Tips for Fellow Admins. My Website and Me. Monday, August 15, 2016. Building a new gaming PC (with some digs about NZXT). Never let it be said that I do not support the aspirations of today's young people. My contribution to the next generation was helping a local teen build out a high powered gaming PC. It was my first time installing a closed-loop liquid cooling system (the Kraken x61. Building a gaming rig. Notice how decades of IT work has resulted in a Quasimodo hunch. Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080. There...

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Josh Wieder: How to Authenticate WHMCS Admin Users with PHP

http://www.joshwieder.net/2016/12/how-to-authenticate-whmcs-admin-users.html

Tips for Fellow Admins. My Website and Me. Tuesday, December 13, 2016. How to Authenticate WHMCS Admin Users with PHP. For my project, neither LDAP nor Active Directory were options. When I came up empty on the API front I started Googling for a reasonable alternative, and I found a small number of other options. I became interested in the idea of building my own WHMCS API function. Use WHMCS Auth; $authAdmin = new Auth; if ($authAdmin- getInfobyUsername($username) & $authAdmin- comparePassword($password...