May 11th, 2006

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Cheap webhosting = bad security

For production work, steer well away from free/cheap webhosting companies like hostultra.

While reading a discussion about .htaccess files at corz.org, someone complained about lack of security skills of the admins there, where instead of securing their boxes, they disabled some useful php functions due to “security issues.”

By the way the .htaccess discussion whose link is provided above is very good, far more readable that the one at apache.org

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Gary McKinnon aka Solo: the new Mitnick?

US govt alleges that between February 2001 and March 2002, he repeatedly hacked into, from the UK, dozens of computers used by the US Army, Navy, Air Force, and Department of Defense.

Talk about bad timing: that’s within 9/11’s timeframe. (more…)

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