Posts Tagged "wordpress"
Lesson Learned
For those of you who may recently have been met with an obscene (and terribly-designed) spam page, or a static “under contruction” page here, my apologies. This site was hacked over the weekend, and it took some time to get it back in order. I can’t yet say for certain it won’t come back to bite me again, but I have taken measures to prevent it from ocurring again.
A big thank you to Bluehost, whose tech support seems to get even better every time I call up. I’m never on hold very long, and every tech I’ve ever spoken to there has been helpful, knowledgeable, and generally intelligent. And thank God they keep backups, because I would’ve been in real trouble without them.
In that vein, just a quick PSA. If you’re running a WordPress-powered site, make sure to a) always keep a backup of both your WordPress directory and database, and b) always upgrade quickly to the newest version of the software. Apparently, a vulnerability in my outdated WordPress install was probably the root of my woes, and don’t I look stupid now for not having prevented it. So, please, do better than I did, and keep on top of it.
Oh, Hey
So apparently I have a blog or something. And I haven’t updated it since the summer. Whoops.
Anyway, that’s about to change, as I’ve updated the layout completely, and I’m going to (re)start posting here often. Let me know how the new look works out – I can change it pretty easily now, and I think it’s much cleaner than it used to be, at least.
