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Hi all,
Hope this is the best place to post. My Drupal site was hacked, I just found out today, My provider fixed the issue which they described as a "zero day" vulnerability. They made a patch, applied it, restored my index file, informed the Drupal maintainers of the vulnerability and sent me the most informative, helpful and professional email, that I have ever had from a provider. These guy's give awesome service. They fixed the problem, created a patch and applied it, within half an hour.

Here's the email they sent me... I have no affiliation with them, other than I host some sites with them.

Hello,

Thank you for contacting TMDHosting Technical Support Team!

We have investigated thoroughly the issue and it turns out that the problem you have experienced was caused by a "zero day" vulnerability in your application. Unlike other vulnerabilities, the zero day ones are quite severe, especially due the fact that they are just discovered, usually not by the maintainers of the application, but by persons with bad intentions. Such a person appears to passed through your website exploiting this vulnerability and replacing your application's index with another one.

Hi all,

we are glad to release a new version of BlueMasters, our most beloved and widely used freebie so far, for Drupal 7.x. With more than 20 fixes and improvements and several new features, including CSS drop-down multilevel menus, clean URL support and fully styled comments, BlueMasters 1.1 is a thoroughly revamped edition.

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Hi I am looking for training in drupal admin in South Africa. Please can you help

Update on March 10, 2011: The Git Tower team has jumped on board and extended to us a group discount that we can use until April 10, 2011. Use the code DRUPAL10 to get 10% off!

Hot on the heels of the recent Git on Mac OS discussion in the LA Drupal group, we're happy to offer the Drupal community a 25% discount code towards Gitbox by Oleg Andreev. Gitbox is an excellent user interface to the Git version control system that we at Exaltation of Larks find invaluable for our development work.

The discount code is LADRUPAL and it will work until April 9, 2011. Gitbox doesn't have a time-based trial period and purchasing a license unlocks the ability to manage unlimited repositories, so you can download and use Gitbox risk-free on a trial basis to manage up to 3 repositories. Gitbox also has a friendly per-user, multi-machine license.

Neither Exaltation of Larks nor LA Drupal get any kickbacks in the form of shared revenue from this promotion. As with the Path Finder discount that we offered last year, this is purely an offer to the Drupal community to help make people's work easier.

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