Monthly Archives: April 2007

We’ve been hacked. Protecting yourself from hackers. Part III of ongoing saga

(sigh)
I am getting tired.
I think this may be the last post about being hacked (previous posts: part I, part II). I have a lot of information that I have found, and would not mind sharing, but this whole thing is wearing me out…If you want more after this let me know in the comments section [...]

Open To Suggestions…

We know that our hot searches for “Japanese TV online”, “Japan Blogs”, “Japanese lessons”, “writing in Japanese online without text support” have been very popular.
We do not want to retire these hot searches because they are so useful. But we do want to make room for new ones. So we have a dilema…
That is why [...]

We’ve been hacked. Pride Before The Fall. Part II of ongoing saga

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
(translation: bad news to follow)
In my previous post about being hacked I made some naive assumptions:

The hackers just took advantage of an improper setting in the admin section of the content management system (the system that manages the website; In this case it was phpizabi).
Therefore, magically, it would be easy to fix.

Side note: I [...]

We’ve been ‘hacked.’ Part I of ongoing saga

So I was chatting on Instant messenger with James last night and I asked him if he had seen some of the recent changes that I had made on one of our projects under development when he gave me the worst news of my web nerd life…
“Germans Have Hacked Our Site!” <– Turns out that [...]

New "virtual tour of Japan" hot search!

This search is looking like a winner.Have you ever wanted to see what the streets and famous parts of Tokyo look like? (for those who have not yet been)
Well now you can feel like you’re there with these virtual tours.

Mission: Enhance and Improve Japan-related content on the web!

If you have read some of our other posts or communicated with us via email you may know that we are dedicated to improving the Japan-related content available online amd making it more accessible.
We want to be the Google (and wikipedia) of Japan-related content, with a similar focus on transparency and “Don’t Be Evil” [...]

Helping Foreigners in Japan

One of the most important goals of Nipponster.com is to help foreigners in Japan (and people interested in visiting, studying, or living in Japan in the future).
I know from personal experience that adjusting to life in Japan is very difficult at the beginning (even regardless of speaking ability). Some have lived in Japan for years [...]