I received an email yesterday afternoon, informing me this blog has been hacked:

Regarding fsfoundry.org,

This email is not an April’s fools email and it has been sent to notify you that your blog’s version is old and needs to be updated ASAP as it was hacked.

While tracking some Viagra spammers I have come accross several links coming from your blog and, after testing it, it appears your blog is 2.1.* generation hence vulnerable to SQL injection blind-fishing attacks. Search Google to learn more. In a few words: spammers can take full control of your blog in a matter of minutes and deface it at will.

These attacks are as serious as they can get as the spammers have full access to your blog and add hidden HTML elements to mask their links.

You MUST update your blog to the latest official WordPress version and manually clean your last 5-10 posts of the parasite links which you will only see in HTML view.

Not doing so may attract severe search engine penalties as you are currently linking to sites with VERY bad reputation.

Hoping you will take required action,
A.S.S. (Anonymous Security Specialist)

PS: I got your email address from your Dashboard / Users Management Section. I have warned many during the past months regarding the vulnerable blogs, being a blogger myself, but it seems I haven’t warned everyone. Lateste WordPress is secure.

PPS: Your login name is XXXX and password hash is XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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Some months ago, I came across a mistake in Kernel command using Linux system calls, published by IBM’s developerWorks.
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Yo, bro. It’s your 27th birthday. It’s the 13th of May and it’s Mother’s day again, just like the day you were born.

Though I can not be there to celebrate this special day with you. Nevertheless, I would like to say this out loud, you are the best brother a guy could ask for.

Happy birthday. I love you man.

I recently came across a mistake in The rvalue Reference Proposal published in Informit’s C++ Reference Guide.

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