Apologies for the SPAM

Unfor­tu­nately, yes­ter­day my blog was hacked, and done in a way that I can’t (after a nearly sleep­less night) extri­cate the poi­so­nous code from it. After going round and round with no solu­tion, I’m com­ing to the con­clu­sion that I’m going to have to do a com­plete wipe of it and start from scratch. I’m hop­ing that I can retain my pre­vi­ous entries, but I can’t let this go on much longer, and have to find a way to get this garbage out. My sin­cere apolo­gies, and I hope that I’ll be able to get this run­ning again soon.

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By David Drucker | Filed in Blogging | July 19, 2009 11:36 am

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5 Comments to “Apologies for the SPAM”

  1. AvatarJan Karlsbjerg
    Posted: Jul 19th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
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    No need to start over. Auto­mate the clean­ing instead. See tips here: http://www.jankarlsbjerg.com/blog/archives/2009/04/13/so-your-wordpress-was-hacked-now-what/
  2. AvatarDavid Drucker
    Posted: Jul 19th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
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    Thanks, Jan. I’ve got­ten the scan­ner plu­gin men­tioned in your post­ing and will run it reg­u­larly. I detailed the hack­ing in a com­ment to that post, and am hop­ing that tak­ing some of the mea­sures you men­tion will make attacks like this harder to do (but I thought I was being vig­i­lant!) :\). Am going to slowly add back plu­g­ins now an make sure that every­thing works the way it should going for­ward. Just glad that the hacker didn’t get to my MySQL data­base, as that would have made things even worse than they were.
  3. Avatarchristine
    Posted: Jul 19th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
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    Hey David, You may also want to look at the secure word­press plu­gin. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/secure-wordpress/

    It may help against future attacks.
  4. AvatarDavid Drucker
    Posted: Jul 19th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
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    Thanks, Chris­tine. Will have a look at it for sure.
  5. AvatarDavid Drucker
    Posted: Jul 19th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
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    I’ve installed secure-wordpress and the Word­Press Expoit scan­ner, changed my FTP pass­word and gen­er­ally cleaned things up. Here’s hop­ing I can stay clean and spam-free for a lit­tle while!
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