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There is a major attack on older version of Wordpress blogs right now and the number of sites hit by this is growing every hour. Users of WordPress.com hosted blogs are not affected.

How to prevent from the attack

If your site has not been attacked yet, the best solution is

Update your Wordpress site immediately to the latest version. Please download latest Wordpress from here.

This critical warning comes from Lorelle on Wordpress.

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. You will probably be unable to access that account.

If your Wordpress blog has been attacked

This attack is critical and it hacks the database - going very deep. Exporting your database doesn't help at all.

Here's the steps to take if your blog has been affected

1. Export all your content with the built-in XML WordPress export.
2. Back up all your images, CSS, Javascripts and general files. (Everything within your themes folder)
3. Install the latest version of Wordpress blog on the new database (don't re-install on your old database - the hack code will be there)
4. Add the “clean” backup of your WordPress Theme
5. Re-import your XML exported content (that will contain your posts, Pages, and comments)

They also now have an excellent team to track down this issue and quickly protect WordPress with any necessary updates. For those affected: the WordPress community is there to help.

Please blog and Twitter about the attacks. It’s important that we spread the information throughout the WordPress Community as fast as possible, encouraging everyone to update WordPress.

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The Geneva-based International Coalition for the Advancement of Religious and Spirituality (ICARUS) has bestowed "The Best Religion In the World" award this year on the Buddhist Community.

This special award was voted on by an international round table of more than 200 religious leaders from every part of the spiritual spectrum. It was fascinating to note that many religious leaders voted for Buddhism rather than their own religion although Buddhists actually make up a tiny minority of ICARUS membership. Here are the comments by four voting members:

Jonna Hult, Director of Research for ICARUS said "It wasn't a surprise to me that Buddhism won Best Religion in the World, because we could find literally not one single instance of a war fought in the name of Buddhism, in contrast to every other religion that seems to keep a gun in the closet just in case God makes a mistake. We were hard pressed to even find a Buddhist that had ever been in an army. These people practice what they preach to an extent we simply could not document with any other spiritual tradition."

A Catholic Priest, Father Ted O'Shaughnessy said from Belfast , "As much as I love the Catholic Church, it has always bothered me to no end that we preach love in our scripture yet then claim to know God's will when it comes to killing other humans. For that reason, I did have to cast my vote for the Buddhists."

A Muslim Cleric Tal Bin Wassad agreed from Pakistan via his translator. "While I am a devout Muslim, I can see how much anger and bloodshed is channeled into religious expression rather than dealt with on a personal level. The Buddhists have that figured out." Bin Wassad, the ICARUS voting member for Pakistan 's Muslim community continued,

"In fact, some of my best friends are Buddhist."

And Rabbi Shmuel Wasserstein said from Jerusalem, "Of course, I love Judaism, and I think it's the greatest religion in the world. But to be honest, I've been practicing Vipassana meditation every day before minyan (daily Jewish prayer) since 1993. So I get it."

However, there was one snag - ICARUS couldn't find anyone to give the award to. All the Buddhists they called kept saying they didn't want the award. When asked why the Burmese Buddhist community refused the award, Buddhist monk Bhante Ghurata Hanta said from Burma , "We are grateful for the acknowledgement, but we give this award to all humanity, for Buddha nature lies within each of us."

Groehlichen went on to say "We're going to keep calling around until we find a Buddhist who will accept it. We'll let you know when we do."

Source: Meditation Centre in Sydney Australia

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Here's GOOD NEWS: I've just got word that the folks over at SpeedPPC are just about to launch their End of Financial Year Sale, including a bonus that's being offered for the very first time!

To celebrate the end of Australia's financial year, they're slashing 40% off the regular price of SpeedPPC. That means you'll save almost $200 off SpeedPPC's top package.

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Checking your web site position is a very time consuming task. It may take you days to complete it by manually searching in the search engines. That's where Advanced Web Ranking comes to help.

Features

Advanced Web Ranking is able to query over 800 search engines and quickly find out if you're moving up or down in the rankings, or if your site is listed at all. It will track the progress of your rankings over time and display that information in an easy to read and understand graphical and tabular reports. It can help you check not just the position of your website but the position of your competitors' web sites as well.

Advanced Web Ranking has the ability to generate and email reports after an update was finished. Couple that with the Scheduled Updates ability, and you will be able to turn on your computer in the morning and find reports on your websites ranks waiting for you in your Inbox.

Report types

As being myself as  SEO, we use this to have updates being run and sent to our customers every week without even lifting a hand. Various types of reports (Current Rank, Top Sites, Web Site, etc.) can be created in any of the formats. 

Output

Advanced Web Ranking supports (PDF, HTML, Excel, XML or Text). Then they can be emailed to any of the addresses you pick from the Address Book, or saved to a folder where you can access them over the Internet.

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Travelling with your mobile phone is great – until you get home and a huge bill arrives for all that global roaming. One solution is to buy a prepaid SIM card in the country you’re visiting, but that wears thin if you’re moving from one country to another.

Another solution is now being offered by BackChat Mobile. The GlobalSIM is a prepaid service for travellers that’s does not incur exorbitant roaming costs and enables you to receive calls for free in over 50 countries.

Customers get one SIM card with one number that can be used in over 130 countries. There is no contract or monthly fees and bills are charged in Australian dollars.

Starter packs are available from $49 including SIM card and $15 of calls.

More details at backchatmobile.com.au

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To cut down mobile phone costs, BackChat Mobile is offering a pre-paid mobile roaming service which, it says, avoids exorbitant roaming costs.

The company’s GlobalSIM will allow international travellers to receive calls for free in more than 50 countries.

Research by BackChat Mobile shows that if a user makes 20 minutes of calls to Australia and receives 20 minutes of calls, the bill will be $169 instead of the average international roaming cost of $695.

More details at backchatmobile.com.au

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etrainu provides an invaluable facility for training online in a simple, cost effective and time saving manner.  Access is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at the click of a button!

etrainu products are provided online via the internet and are presented in an interactive, engaging and informative format. The latest in innovation and technological advances are continually updated throughout the system.

etrainu is the only private sector provider of online RSA training approved by the Queensland Liquor Licensing Division (QLD LLD).  etrainu also offers Responsible Service of Alcohol (RSA) training for participants in NT, WA, SA and TAS.

The unit of competency Provide responsible service of alcohol is a nationally accredited unit of competency and is part of the Hospitality Training Package THHO2 under the requirements of the Australian Quality Training Framework (AQTF).

The unit of competency will teach you to:

•     Identify customers to whom service should be refused.
•     Prepare and serve alcoholic beverages responsibly.
•     Assist customers to drink within appropriate limits.
•     Assist alcohol affected customers.

This provide responsible service of alcohol training program was developed under the direction of the Queensland Liquor Licensing Division and meets the Division's requirements in relation to training in the provision of responsible service of alcohol while still meeting the requirements for national accreditation. Responsible service of alcohol training is required for all staff serving alcoholic beverages.

Find out more about RSA Course

More about etrainu

etrainu specializes in the following training products:

•     Accredited online courses (under the Australian Quality Training Framework – AQTF) for the Hospitality, Retail and Construction industries
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Australia’s favourite “zoom-zoom” Mazda model has reached a milestone in its history.

Global production of the ever-popular Mazda 3 reached two million units in October 2008 after five years and four months on the market, according to Mazda global headquarters in Japan.

Mazda began production of the Mazda 3 in western Japan in June 2003. Since then, the popular compact vehicle has been sold in more than 100 countries, including Australia, and has won 94 global automotive awards.

Australian drivers have certainly fallen in love with Mazda’s high quality fleet of vehicles, ranging from the smallest and most affordable model, the Mazda 2, to the largest and most luxurious family vehicle, the Mazda CX9.

Figures just released by Mazda’s global headquarters in Japan show that 77,000 Mazdas were sold in Australia in 2007 – an all-time Australian record.

Sydney Mazda Dealer, Principal of Eurocars, Tim Garner, said sales records were constantly tumbling with 700 Mazdas recently sold in just one week across NSW – another first in Mazda’s Australian history.

“Australians are increasingly recognising the superior performance, style, comfort and value for money in all Mazda models,” Mr Garner said.

The new Mazda 3 model will be available for test drives and purchasing at leading Sydney Mazda dealership, Eurocars Artarmon, in April this year. To find out more or book a test drive, contact Eurocars today.

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