Amusing anecdotes & random ramblings
WordPress plus Dreamhost = hacked WordPress blog
I host my main blog on Dreamhost, using WordPress. This may have been a fatal mistake.
A while ago, someone emailed me to kindly point out that my site had somehow been hacked, and spam links injected into my HTML code. It wouldn’t appear on the site to human eyes, but it’s all there in the HTML code and picked up by Google et. al.
I changed all my passwords (Dreamhost, WordPress, FTP), removed the hacked code and thought the problem was over.
Oh no. It’s just come back. Only this time, I can’t figure out where the code is. And since I changed all the passwords to begin with, it means that either Dreamhost or WordPress has become seriously compromised. Although naturally my Google-fu is failing me and I can’t figure out where the problem’s come from. Although this post gives one indication.
Now I’m debating whether to carry on with this blog or move to yet another blogging platform like LiveJournal or something… bah… Or I could give up. It’s been six years, after all…
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By day a BBC/Intranet content producer. By night, mildly obsessed by web, film, comedy, pop/digital culture, people, and randomness.
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about 2 weeks ago - No comments
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about 3 weeks ago - 4 comments
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about 1 month ago - 1 comment
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about 3 months ago - 7 comments
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about 6 months ago - No comments
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about 7 months ago - No comments
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about 1 year ago
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