meta: brief malware event
The site was down from about 6:45 to 9 due to malware. This time we:
1. Took the site down immediately. Malware had been up about 10 minutes, I think.
2. Identified the offending script.
3. Locked down that directory so that it will run nothing.
Never say never but we did a much better job this time around and have identified the offending vulnerability to deal with it, something we had issues with before. The offending directory is one of the areas users can upload to, of which there are no others, and we've just shut off any ability for someone to execute in it.
Sorry for anyone who got hit in that brief window. We are just about at the point where this should not happen again, I think.
October 30th, 2011 at 9:07 PM ^
Are the avatars a casualty of war?
Edit: Nevermind...they just came back up! Thanks Brian.
October 30th, 2011 at 9:08 PM ^
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but it's been bugging me for awhile: What does "meta" mean?
October 30th, 2011 at 9:11 PM ^
It means that the thread concerns MGoBlog itself.
In general parlance, it denotes a concept which is an abstraction from another concept (e.g., "metaphysical")
October 30th, 2011 at 9:10 PM ^
It's one of the worlds great mysteries, nobody really knows but a lot of people claim to know.
October 30th, 2011 at 9:32 PM ^
I've been wanting to ask this same questions a billion times
October 30th, 2011 at 10:02 PM ^
Metadata: A set of data that describes and gives information about other data.
Used in computer application to describe the content being hosted by the website.
October 30th, 2011 at 11:15 PM ^
meta: Not to be confused with "Metta" as in Metta World Peace aka Ron Artest
October 31st, 2011 at 1:09 AM ^
October 31st, 2011 at 11:04 AM ^
Like an old literary term, metapoetry: poetry about poetry. The same idea applies here.
October 30th, 2011 at 10:53 PM ^
Generally speaking you can read the prefix to mean "about".
So metadata is data about data. A metapost is a post about posts.
October 30th, 2011 at 9:10 PM ^
It pissed me off..
October 30th, 2011 at 9:20 PM ^
i did not realize how addicted i was to mgoblog until it was down. i probably refreshed the landing page 5 times in the two hours it was offline.
October 30th, 2011 at 9:32 PM ^
Y u only refresh five times???
October 30th, 2011 at 9:41 PM ^
Brian hates capitalization in MGoBoard posts.
October 30th, 2011 at 9:42 PM ^
Doesn't "meta" literally mean, "beyond?"
October 30th, 2011 at 10:06 PM ^
kinda. from wikipedia:
Meta- (from Greek: μετά = "after", "beyond", "with", "adjacent", "self"), is a prefix used in English (and other Greek-owing languages) to indicate a concept which is an abstraction from another concept, used to complete or add to the latter.
October 30th, 2011 at 9:47 PM ^
Meta as in a Charlie Kaufman movie..
October 30th, 2011 at 10:35 PM ^
Is the posbang feature still infected?
*wink hint*
October 30th, 2011 at 10:57 PM ^
This must be my gateway drug. Any longer I would have been in trouble.
October 30th, 2011 at 11:03 PM ^
October 30th, 2011 at 11:19 PM ^
Is there a reason pretty much all the comments I make using a computer get blocked by "your submission has triggered the spam filter and will not be accepted"?
I can usually make one comment, but it happens on the second and I basically get banned for a day. The android app works fine though.
I might be getting a capcha wrong, but I've tried to be extra careful with them. Still, I don't see why getting one wrong should shut you down completely.
October 31st, 2011 at 1:14 AM ^
Maybe a few of the other users can give some input, but I have never once had to input a capcha to post here before. What browser do you use, what settings do you have on, any add-ons, proxy, static/dynamic IP, or any other security feature that might make you look like an ad bot?
October 31st, 2011 at 2:42 AM ^
too. Once you pass 100, it goes away.