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Update Wordpress to avoid nasty attacks Posted: 05 Sep 2009 02:24 PM PDT Are you a blogger who runs self hosted Wordpress blog,then you are advised to update immediately to the latest version 2.8.4 asap to avoid an ongoing attack.Users of wordpress.com aren’t affected.It's a nasty attack that goes all the way into the database,so exporting the database will result in exporting the hacked code too. The warning comes from Lorelle on WordPress after it was discovered that a nasty attack is exploiting security holes in previous versions of the blogging software, creating a new "hidden" Administrator account and getting right down to the database level. These attacks are said to be "growing by the hour". Lorelle writes: There are two clues that your WordPress site has been attacked. There are strange additions to the pretty permalinks, such as example.com/category/post-title/%&(%7B$%7Beval(base64_decode($_SERVER%5BHTTP_REFERER%5D))%7D%7D|.+)&%/. The keywords are "eval" and "base64_decode." The second clue is that a "back door" was created by a "hidden" Administrator. Check your site users for "Administrator (2)" or a name you do not recognize. You will probably be unable to access that account. So update your self posted blog to the latest version asap and avoid nasty attacks.How do you do it.Export all your posts,comments,categories etc using the export function in wordpress and uninstall/reinstall WordPress then re-import the content. Via

Two ways to recover data from damaged/Corrupted disks Posted: 05 Sep 2009 02:04 PM PDT You may have encountered a situation where you have backed up your important data into external disks like Cd/DVD/HD DVD/Blue ray disks,but at any instance when you need the data you are not able to read the disks or not able to extract data.What do you do in such a situation ? Here i give you two apps which can do your task and help you recover your data.I have listed it below. IsoBuster (Share-ware) IsoBuster is an award winning,highly specialized and easy to use CD,DVD and blu-ray (BD, HD DVD) data recovery tool.It supports all CD / DVD / BD / HD DVD formats and all common file-systems.Rescue lost files from a bad or trashed CD or DVD disc, save important documents, precious pictures, video from the family, your only system backup can be achieved using Isobuster.This is not a freeware though. If you are interested in going with a Freeware alternative give CD RecoverToolbox a try. CD Recovery Toolbox tool was developed for recovering damaged files from different disk types: CD, DVD,HD DVD, Blu-Ray, etc. You can use it to restore information lost as a result of some mechanical damage of the disk (scratches, chips, different spots on the surface) or as a result of incorrect recording.Thus,the program can recover data that was considered lost. The CD Recovery Toolbox Free tool scans any CD and DVD disks and finds files and folders located there.The program recovers the maximum amount of information in the damaged file.This reduces the risk of data loss considerably. If you are not satisfied with the above two apps you can also try Badcopy one more shareware. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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