[p2p-research] Google Alert - hasslberger

[Michel Bauwens]

Dear Marco,

I think this is the explanation, see
http://www.site-reference.com/articles/Website-Development/How-to-Detect-and-Prevent-a-WordPress-Spam-Injection-Attack.html

with more links at the top side of
http://delicious.com/mbauwens/P2P-Security

Kasper can confirm what has been done, and what could be done ...

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 1:51 PM, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:

> On Sat, May 22, 2010 13:21:51 PM +0700, Michel Bauwens (
> michelsub2004 at gmail.com) wrote:
>
> > Dear Sepp,
> >
> > this problem is well known to us, and James and Kasper have been
> > working for days on this, I thought the problem had disappeared ...
> > James, Kasper: what more do we need to do?
>
> FWIW, this happens with my name too, just search in Google 'fioretti
> site:p2pfoundation.net' (without quotes) and look at the 3rd, 5th, 8th
> result. Couple of questions:
>
> 1) I know nothing of this particular attack: how it is called? What
>   should I read to understand how it works and how to prevent it?
>
> 2) due to #1, I really can't help to _fix_ this, but if there is any
>   "dumb data-gathering" I can do on my side, things like "please run
>   this command or test on your PC and send us the result so we can
>   investigate better", just ask.
>
> Marco
>
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