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Comment kiwi eggs in an uncomfortable place (Score 1) 308

Cavity - Internal - Airport...

A three word combination that will make any bloke nervous...

But I suppose some people would welcome this new technology:
"In September 2000, a NZ radio DJ was convicted and fined $1100 after impersonating a detective from Interpol. He called Los Angeles police and claimed his three co-workers were trying to enter the United States with kiwi eggs hidden in their "rear cavities". The trio were subsequently held for two hours at LA Airport, questioned and searched."

His colleagues didn't think it was funny btw.

Comment Re:Do your own math (Score 2, Informative) 175

Illnesses. Sick animals without treatment have a lower chance of survival.

FIV. It is rampant in feral cat colonies. It has also mutated so that there are strains unique to specific areas and/or colonies. Unlike HIV it spreads via bites and scratches btw.

I worked with a PhD student doing research on a specific strain of FIV unique to the country I live in - you should've seen some of the feral monsters she dissected. Size of frikkin' horses with fangs that would make Dracula jealous.

Comment Joomla install defaced this morning (Score 1) 36

We use Joomla for our company website, which hacked and defaced yesterday morning using a trivial SQL injection in a malformed URL. Now our website advertises viagra...

Found the malformed URL in the logs and went to joomla website and forums and could not find _anything_ relating to this 'exploit', No fix, nada, nothing.

I could fix it, it is open source after all, but instead I ripped out the whole joomla install and replaced it with a static version of the site.

Did a google search on the malformed URL and found a (russian) forum with detailed instructions on how to get admin access to Joomla sites, including ready made perl scripts to do all the work for you....
and an additional malformed URL which I had not seen used on our site that will display the contents of any file in /etc/ in the browser. Tried it on our server...and yup, that works. Again no mention of exploit or fix on joomla website.

Goooodby Joomla. Hope we never meet again.

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