Segmentation Fault: Core dumped..;-)

Embedding Slides from Slideware

anand — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:08:23 +0000

So what's Slideware? Think of it as "YouTube" of all your cool presentations that you ever built and that's currently stashed away on your hard disk. Neat.

Up and Down and Up…

anand — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 06:57:30 +0000

I took the liberty of upgrading the Apache/PHP combo that was running this site. Why? Well, since I did not have good visibility into what caused the security breach last week, I decided it was time to start plugging all "potential" security holes that might exist on this box. Needless to say, it's a thankless and never-ending job. Too bad I don't get paid to do this

Bottomline, if the uptime of this site was somewhat erratic for the past few hours, now you know why. Your patience is much appreciated.

Ugh…

anand — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 05:10:48 +0000

Got an email from my ISP this evening saying that things were not ok with my little "slice" (read, server) on the internet. To make a long story short, this site (and some other sites that I manage) were all dead as a dodo for the better part of the day. My apologies.

Since I am pretty good about keeping this site up, here's a little tip for you guys in case something like this happens in the future. If you find this site down for more than an hour at a stretch, you can safely conclude that either me or my server is having a really really bad day. Fortunately (or not), this time it was not me, but my poor server. "She" had to put up with a blind and a rather bad date (read, hacker, or should I say "script kiddie").

Kids...When will they grow up

Quote of the day…

anand — Tue, 10 May 2005 20:21:52 +0000

The fact is that software isn't secure because it's open source, it's secure because it's secure.
- Jon Udell, "Greasemonkeying Around"

Want to know the default userid/password for a Hardware/Software that you may have?

anand — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 23:38:24 +0000

[via Jason Kottke]

Be my guest

Interesting entry in my web server logs. Someone has an infected/hacked computer..:-)

anand — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 02:59:54 +0000

Here's what I had in my error_log:

[Wed Jun 02 03:30:21 2004] 
[error] [client 69.81.6.80] request failed: URI too long (longer than 8190)

A quick nslookup gave me:

Name:    user-12l21ig.cable.mindspring.com
Address:  69.81.6.80

The access_log had the following (abbreviated version):

69.81.6.80 - - [02/Jun/2004:03:30:21 -0400] "SEARCH /\x90\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\
xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\
x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\
xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\
x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\
xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\
x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\
xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\
x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\
xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1
...

...

0\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90" 414 437

A quick wc -c showed that this crap goes on for 29231 characters!

Should I do something about it?

Update:
Thanks to Jason, I got this link which basically sums this entry up rather well:

"It is an IIS WebDAV exploit from April 2003 (?), apache is not affected, its just annoying :) (nachi and agobot use this exploit)"