This was a tip that we just had to share with everyone. Our email tool of choice here at Silva Tech, is Mozilla Thunderbird with the “Ligtning” calendar plugin. Its worked very well with the multitude of Google Calendars/mail accounts that we maintain for clients, but recently the program started to crawl on a regular […]
Filezilla is great tool for any web service provider, but we have on more than one occasion been bit with a rather annoying error that stops our entire transfer process forcing us to close and re-open the tool. You’ll usually get something like: Status: ftpcontrolsocket.cpp(1750): Waiting for replies to skip before sending next command…
To continue our series on WordPress hacks and cleanups, we present a very quick and dirty method of detecting and cleaning up wordpress based pages that may have been infected by the good ol’ Base64 hack. The PERL code listed below recursively searches down the root web folder, searches files for any hints of a […]
Magento’s internal search engine is really really rough around the edges. Its very inflexible and sometimes tedious to populate and maintain. Thankfully, there is a very low-cost option from a vendor that knows a little bit about search engines. Google Site Search! Its easy to install within a Magento installation (and replace the default search […]
Last week we mentioned a few plugins about finding and cleaning hacks. With that same client, we found a new vector of attack that is immune to a lot of the new tactics. In one instance, we found that the code was placed in clear text, rather than obfuscated by base_64 encoding. Basically, the new […]
We have been seeing an increase recently in the amount of hacked WordPress installations. One of the largest causes of a site being exploited, has been outdated “theme” files containing the tool “TimThumb”. An explanation of the exploit can be found Here. We recommend that folks that have themes built from pre-canned templates install and […]
So we work on Magento ecommerce solutions quite frequently. For the most basic setups, both the community and enterprise version perform like a charm. They are extremely easy to setup, configure and get rolling with Authorize.net with a basic theme overhaul. The problem is, when you start to go offroad a bit and build application […]
Starting to configure a new Dell PowerConnect 6248, I realized that my new laptop didn’t have a serial interface to configure the initial router setup (Dell, seriously, the VT-100 console mode is a tad 1978-ish). There’s no fear, I have an old Ubuntu box that so happens to have a serial port free, but I […]
Using our quick prototype Google Earth tool, we put together a map from the USGS showing the Magnitude 5.6 – Oklahoma earthquake. Preview Google Earth Map Here
Recently we were impressed with another LinkedIn developer project programmatically pulled together user LinkedIn network data. We decided to put together a prototype that would place network connections geographically across the globe. We found out quite a lot about the LinkedIn API (it is limited and a bit buggy when it comes to Ajax connections) […]
