Selenay's Ramblings

My lovely hosts, FutureQuest, have helped me to get rid of all the compromised files and they have blocked the IP that the hack originated in. They have been wonderful and incredibly fast to respond to everything, which is amazing on a Sunday afternoon.

I always write and update the site on my local hard drive, so I was able to restore everything to its pre-hacked state with no problems. It doesn't look like the hackers compromised the data in the reviews database, which is a relief!

That has been moved to a regular updating schedule, just in case.

The vulnerability was an old version of phyMyAdmin, which I have removed and I will be reviewing what I use in future to administer the databases. The hackers were able to use that to inject code in my index files and .htaccess files, which redirected everyone to a site that I assume then installed lots of nasties onto peoples' machines. If anyone visited The Haven between 20th October and 24th October, you should check your anti-virus and anti-spam things to make sure your machines were not attacked.

I apologise for this and I wish that I had detected the issues earlier. It is the first time the site has been hacked in the ten years that I have been running it, which I am trying to tell myself is a good running average although right now it doesn't feel like it.

Basic message: website restored and now protected better. Never believe it won't happen to you because it can.

Written for the femslash10 challenge, my recipient was netgirl_y2k

Title: Empty Hearts
Summary: Amy goes looking for the rumoured swimming pool in a libary in the TARDIS and finds more than she bargained for.
Rating: PG
Pairing: Amy Pond/Rose Tyler
Date: 02-09-2010
Spoilers: Up to Hungry Earth/Cold Blood S5.
Disclaimer: Doctor Who and its characters are the property of the BBC. I do not own the characters and indeed am only playing with them for a little while. I am not making any money from this. No copyright infringement whatsoever is intended. The story is for entertainment purposes only. Please check with me first if you want to archive this story.
Distribution: Teaspoon and an Open Mind, anyone else please ask first.
Feedback: Yes please *g*

Empty Hearts

An extra newsletter has been added to the Newsletter Index for the Primeval fandom.

Check out the index: http://www.selenayhaven.com/newsletters01.htm

There are four new newsletters in the index, including ones for Star Trek and Merlin: http://www.selenayhaven.com/newsletters01.htm

There are also nine new fic reviews, including the first few reviews from this year's Yuletide haul:

Merlin: 3
Ann Brashares - Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series: 2
Chalet School: 2
Bend It Like Beckham: 1
Diane Duane - Young Wizards series: 1

http://www.selenayhaven.com/reviews/latest_reviews01.php

They're a mixture of gen, het and slash but not necessarily in the configurations you'd expect :-)

It's a major milestone day for The Haven today. There are now 500 reviews up at Haven Reviews. Yup, 500 reviews of wonderful fic. You can take a look at the 3 new reviews (all Doctor Who) that took the site to that milestone here.



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Title: Life at the Heart
Summary: With thirty hours to kill before they arrived in Rome, Donna had two choices. She could sit in her room and read, except she had no books, or she could explore the TARDIS. Well, which would you choose?
Rating: PG
Pairing: N/A
Date: 26-05-08
Spoilers: None
Disclaimer: Doctor Who and its characters are the property of the BBC. I do not own the characters and indeed am only playing with them for a little while. I am not making any money from this. No copyright infringement whatsoever is intended. The story is for entertainment purposes only. Please check with me first if you want to archive this story.
Distribution: Teaspoon and an Open Mind, anyone else please ask first.
Feedback: Yes please *g*

You can read it at: Life at the Heart.

It will also be available on Teaspoon shortly.

The Newsletter Index has been updated with 4 new newsletters (Harry Potter, Smallville, Bandom and Twilight) and an update to one of the Harry Potter links.

The Haven has been updated and the first update of the year is a bit of a bumper edition.

Firstly, a newsletter for Life on Mars fans has been added to the Fandom Newsletter Index. From there I have also gleaned that Ashes to Ashes should be starting in the first week in February. Yay!

Thanks to paranoidangel42 fearlessly wading in and reading a ton of Yuletide fics, there are 19 new reviews up at Haven Reviews in a mixture of slash, gen and het:

Pushing Daisies: 4
Discworld: 3
Doctor Who: 3
Blakes 7: 1
Coupling: 1
Harry Potter: 1
Highlander, Holby City (cross-over): 1
Quantum Leap: 1
Spooks: 1
The Avengers: 1
Torchwood: 1
Vorkosigan series: 1

I'm predicting that this will be a great year for fic so read, enjoy and remember to send feedback to the authors of your favourites.

Haven Reviews has been updated with four new reviews:

Doctor Who: 2
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: 1
Stargate Atlantis: 1

I seem to have a review each in het, gen, f/f and m/m slash and they're all festive-themed. If you haven't had enough festive fic yet, I've got an index of more seasonal fic reviews to satisfy everyone's needs! If you're fed up with festive stuff, just browse the rest of the archive and hide with a good long fic :-)

There is also a new addition to the Newsletter Index for the Chuck fandom.

In two ticks, I will be posting my contribution to the festive fic. Have a wonderful holiday season, everyone, no matter what you will be celebrating.

With the able assistance of paranoidangel42 I have two new newsletters up in the Fandom Newsletter Index: one for all the Doctor/Rose shippers wondering where the Doctor/Rose stuff went and one for het shippers of all flavours.