Some major WordPress design flaws have led to widespread attacks on our and your servers. The only hope is reasonably long and strong passwords or WordPress security plugins. The first flaw. By default WordPress have enabled “feature”, when you visit your blog with author query string appended, it nicely reveals your usernames. For example, if […]
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How to save / receive jpg image or any binary data in C# Web Api 2
Searched all through the web for a simple way to save / receive binary data or image file using Web Api 2. Solutions range from very complex to complex: using JSON (30% overhead?) BSON (looks nice, but not widely supported – bsonspec.org) Multipart MIME (why multi-part, if we have only one file?) Complex Web Api […]
Spammed by WordPress comment stealing bot with Facebook profile
Some time ago (1/2 year, may be 1 year) strange comments started to appear in our WordPress comment moderation queue. They all contained some random comments from random places, they all had the similar URL: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX where XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX is profile ID, that is changing from one comment to another. I didn’t click on the fake […]