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TESDA site defaced.

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Here’s a concatenated screencap of the site:

Page 1:

Page 2:


And here are dig and whois returns: TESDA.txt

Well, securing the server is really supposed to be the job of the webhost (in this case, Bitstop Inc. or Ikoula judging from the whois records) and if this was on a shared hosting, oh boy, they’re in real big trouble with their other clients if they made some changes with the system files. Tsk tsk.

Important lesson from all of this: Do not use IIS.

Although I will not claim that Apache is bulletproof, I’m pretty sure it’s far more secure than IIS.

Edit: Tesda Women’s Center website is the one hosted at Bitstop.



Written by rystraum

January 10th, 2010 at 6:58 am

Software Freedom Day 2009

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There were 2 major celebrations for Software Freedom Day in the Philippines last September 19. One was in the NCC and the other was in UST. As much as I wanted to be in all of the venues, I had to pick one. Actually, I did not really have a choice. I needed to be at UST because I gave the routine FOSS talk. Oddly enough, I did not feel nervous giving the talk. In fact, I think I did okay. Audience rapport was good and I can tell they were listening.

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Written by rystraum

September 23rd, 2009 at 7:13 pm