If you are a follower of technology news, you know that one of the key aspect of software is keep it up to date.  Often times the a patch is created to  address security flows that would otherwise make the owner of the software vulnerable.

There is a lot of buzz in the tech sphere tonight regarding people’s blog that uses self hosted wordpress under attack.  The attacker will create an additional admin account and use that account to delete some of the previous blog post that might have existed.

How do you know you have been attacked?  Here is the explanation from Lorelle’s WordPress blog:

There are two clues that your WordPress site has been attacked.

There are strange additions to the pretty permalinks, such as example.com/category/post-title/%&(%7B$%7Beval(base64_decode($_SERVER%5BHTTP_REFERER%5D))%7D%7D|.+)&%/. The keywords are “eval” and “base64_decode.”

The second clue is that a “back door” was created by a “hidden” Administrator. Check your site users for “Administrator (2)” or a name you do not recognize.

Remember to upgrade to WordPress 2.8.4 and schedule periodic backup of your WordPress database!

Neobux is a pay to click that program that pays users to watch a set of advertisement each day.  If you are a new member, you will receive 4 different ads worth 1 cent each for a total of 4 cents a day.  The first thought when I joined the program was that it is totally not worth it.  4 cents a day does not mean much as there are other programs that are much more worthwhile.

However, it does have a very decent referral program is which each click by your referral is worth 1/2 of a cent.  If you refer a lot of users and that participate in a somewhat frequent time frame, you can net yourself some decent change.  Personally I use the PTC programs when I am watching T.V.  While a lot of people might find it not worth the effort, Neobux might be appealing to international users where 4 cents means a lot more there than the United States.  They pay by paypal and the payment is very fast.