Huddersfield Exposed

This is the real reason the UK government have been telling us to stockpile. I, for one, welcome our new woolly overlords.

Saddened to hear that news that Keith Gibson has passed away. I last chatted to him a couple of years ago when he was on a mission to identify the architect of the former Queen Street Chapel (now the Lawrence Batley Theatre).

Footage from the restoration of Huddersfield Narrow Canal appears in this BBC documentary: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Saddened to hear that news that Keith Gibson has passed away. I last chatted to him a couple of years ago when he was on a mission to identify the architect of the former Queen Street Chapel (now the Lawrence Batley Theatre).

When he wasn't busy getting buildings listed, you may well have found him hard at work with the fledgling Huddersfield Canal Society as they began the "impossible restoration" of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal. PDF: huddersfieldcanal.com/wp-content/u...

Saddened to hear that news that Keith Gibson has passed away. I last chatted to him a couple of years ago when he was on a mission to identify the architect of the former Queen Street Chapel (now the Lawrence Batley Theatre).

Current status: watching the time slowly tick away towards PHP o'clock 😁

Looks like the exploit should trip OWASP rules 932200 (RCE Bypass Technique), 933100 (PHP Injection Attack), 942440 (SQL Comment Sequence Detected) & 943120 (Possible Session Fixation Attack).

Current status: watching the time slowly tick away towards PHP o'clock 😁

All servers patched

Confirmation that the website used by the Huddersfield Examiner for their article is indeed fraudulent, courtesy of the Friends of Greenhead Park.

Cheers Tim! The site (which does appear to be a genuine charity) is bizarrely full of AI generated images.

Confirmation that, although the charity is genuine, the "Huddersfield War Memorial Trust" website is an AI-generated fake being used to steal donations. friendsofgreenheadpark.org.uk/our-park/par...

Cheers Tim! The site (which does appear to be a genuine charity) is bizarrely full of AI generated images.

Designed by Sir Charles Nicholson, the memorial was inscribed simply "In Memoriam 1914-1918" with local memorials elsewhere taking on the role of listing their fallen. In 1948, the inscription "1939-1945" was added.

Cheers Tim! The site (which does appear to be a genuine charity) is bizarrely full of AI generated images.

"W. K. NNERRT"(?!?)

I know I've posted this one before, but it's a classic. On 11 July 1912, King George V and Queen Mary pulled up outside Huddersfield Infirmary and he was handed the end of a rope. He gave it a quick tug to unveil a statue of his late father and then drove off 🤴 huddersfield.exposed/s/26516

The press who were covering the Royal Visit to the West Riding mostly had no idea what was going on as the unveiling wasn't part of the scheduled itinerary for the day, hence began a persistent rumour that the grumpy King had steadfastly refused to get out of the car to do a proper unveiling.

Something for fellow web admins... I've spotted this happening before but Microsoft seems to be ramping it up to another level. If your site has a search facility, MS are using bingbot to trigger random searches, even if you've blocked the search URL in your robots.txt.

Million dollar question is "why?". Based on the weird and wonderful searches I've logged today, it looks AI related. Perhaps it's MS Copilot randomly hitting sites to augment chat responses (aka RAG). If so, why is it hitting random sites and ignoring robots.txt? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retriev...

Something for fellow web admins... I've spotted this happening before but Microsoft seems to be ramping it up to another level. If your site has a search facility, MS are using bingbot to trigger random searches, even if you've blocked the search URL in your robots.txt.

Here's the most recent example from my server logs, requested by IP 40.77.167.25 (verified as a Bing crawler). My Brazilian is a little rusty, but apparently it's a search for: Congratulations! I have a house on Maria Antônia Fragola Camargos street. I am happy and grateful.

Something for fellow web admins... I've spotted this happening before but Microsoft seems to be ramping it up to another level. If your site has a search facility, MS are using bingbot to trigger random searches, even if you've blocked the search URL in your robots.txt.