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Waited for a long long time and now finally WordPress 2.0 is released. Then homepage of wordpress.org has changed to a new one.. hmm a better and cleaner design. Will upgrade my blog to WordPress 2.0 when I get home tonight… I have made a new theme for WordPress 2.0 :)
If you want to upgrade your WordPress to the latest version, you can download it here and follow the upgrade instruction. Make sure you make a database backup of your old wordpress database.
Waiting for a whole day, WordPress 2.0 is still not yet to release. There was an announcement where WordPress will be officially released on 26 December 2005. I downloaded and installed the WordPress 2.0 Release Candidate on my local PC and feel that WordPress 2.0 is really nice. Some great features have been reviewed here.
Ah… When it will be released? I can’t wait to install the final release on my live blog.. haha
Second time, the hacker left a message:
Tz4r wAs here… � FELIZ NAVIDAD!
 Finally I see Adsense Themed Ad Units on one of my site. Once in PC at my office and once in my notebook at home. Nice huh? |
Today my colleague asked me “hey, you have change your website to an image or your website has been hacked?”. I thought he must be entered the wrong URL. Then I visit my own site. OMG, it shows me the following image:
Ouch .. who did that.. my site is not that popular what..
I tried to contact my webhosting provider (www.hostexcellence.com) using live chat but nobody is answering. The website is really slow. I tried to logon into my account manager site, the site is very slow too.
Finally, I’m able to logon to the account manager. I tried to investigate the problems. There were 2 files created by the “hacker”/”cracker”. My index.php was replaced and a new image file ownz.jpg was created. The owner (linux’s user) of the files is httpd. httpd is a apache web server. I really don’t know how the hacker can put the files into my folder via httpd. Maybe there was a security loopholes in httpd.
After that, I replaced the hacked with the original index.php and reported to hostexcellence.com. Hopefully they will solve the security problem as soon as possible else I have to move my files to other server.