Hello all,  I just received the following from Michael Simon, the
fellow who runs zwiki:

> FYI there was a junk file upload to leo.zwiki.org today, and I've just 
> removed it and disabled anonymous file upload permission in the wiki's 
> Security tab. You don't need to do anything, except avoid deliberately 
> re-enabling that permission. If you know of any other leo wiki admins likely 
> to be doing this, please let them know.

Thanks to Michael for handling this.  Stuff like this makes me
wonder...

Edward

P.S. Apparently it was a fairly big deal.  See the following:

On Feb 23, 2012, at 2:23 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Support Ticket 821802 has been updated by 'brianok'
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> Hello,
>
> We have received a notification that a site running on your Linode has been 
> hacked:
>
> http://leo.zwiki.org/kurd.txt
>
> In cases of confirmed compromise, we strongly suggest completely redeploying 
> as it is often very difficult to determine the full scope of an attack. If 
> downtime is a concern to you, the following guide will assist you with safely 
> recovering your data and redeploying your Linode with minimal downtime:
>
> - http://library.linode.com/troubleshooting/compromise-recovery

Edward

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