• << Back to 5-Rings.com
  • |
  • Blog Home
  • |
  • About the Author
  • |
  • Sample Chapter
  • ||

Hack me twice…

Posted: February 19th, 2011 under writing.

Well, you know the saying….

My website got compromised again. And it’s my fault.

(Well … as my-fault as someone else hacking my website can be….)

I cleaned my website last time, updated every version of everything I’ve got. But–call me naive–I didn’t change my passwords.

I’m learning a lot more about how sites are compromised. In this case, what they did was plant a php script on my site that was injecting code and returning account information. Then they replaced my error 404 page with a redirect through pretty much all copies of htaccess. 

So basically you’re clean unless you went to a dead link on my page.

I ran some scans on my laptop and came up clean, actually. But, just to be safe, run scans.

« « Resolutions | The New Era » »


3 Comments »

  1. Welcome back!

    …again!

    [Reply]

    Comment by Ryan G. Sanders — March 20, 2011 @ 8:19 pm


  2. Thanks! That was a nightmare. Everytime I thought it was fixed, something else was wrong and I’d have to trace where it was and fix it, change passwords, & resubmit to Google Analytics. These virii are tricky.. They can hide anywhere, even in your sql database … backwards … with code to flip it around on execution. And to the hackers I can only ask: why?

    [Reply]

    Comment by Nick Enlowe — March 21, 2011 @ 7:30 am


  3. Glad you’re back.

    [Reply]

    Comment by Brian — March 21, 2011 @ 7:28 pm



~TrackBack URL~

Leave a comment

Click to cancel reply

Subscribe!
 
...by RSS Feed


...by Email

 

February 2011
S M T W T F S
« Jan   Mar »
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728  

Tweets->

  • No public Twitter messages.

Recent Comments

  • Merrilee on I’ve had a vision: A Word Processor for Fantasy Novel Writers!
  • Ryan G. Sanders on I’ve had a vision: A Word Processor for Fantasy Novel Writers!
  • Nick Enlowe on I’ve had a vision: A Word Processor for Fantasy Novel Writers!
  • Ryan G. Sanders on I’ve had a vision: A Word Processor for Fantasy Novel Writers!
  • Brian on I’ve had a vision: A Word Processor for Fantasy Novel Writers!

Recent Posts

  • Something big’s going on
  • I’ve had a vision: A Word Processor for Fantasy Novel Writers!
  • Writing Journal Entry for 02-06
  • Journal entry for 1-31
  • This morning’s journal entry.

Archives

  • February 2012
  • January 2012
  • December 2011
  • November 2011
  • October 2011
  • September 2011
  • August 2011
  • July 2011
  • June 2011
  • May 2011
  • April 2011
  • March 2011
  • February 2011
  • January 2011
  • December 2010
  • November 2010
  • October 2010
  • September 2010
  • August 2010
  • July 2010
  • June 2010
  • May 2010
  • April 2010
  • March 2010
  • February 2010
  • January 2010
  • December 2009
  • November 2009
  • September 2009
  • August 2009
  • July 2009
  • June 2009
  • May 2009
  • April 2009
  • March 2009
  • February 2009
  • January 2009
  • December 2008
  • November 2008
  • October 2008
  • September 2008
  • August 2008
  • July 2008
  • June 2008
  • May 2008
  • April 2008
  • March 2008

Resources for Writers:


The Word Cloud writing community
Limyaael's Rants
Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions

Blogs by Well-known Authors:


The Dragonmount Blog
Patrick Rothfuss
Brandon Sanderson
Neil Gaiman

Writing Broadcasts:


Writing Excuses Podcast

Fellow Writers:


Not Enough Words
Ryan G. Sanders
Soul Saga
C.R. Hindmarsh
Davina Pearson
The Awake Ones
One Swaying Behind
SmithWriting Blog
Natania Barron
Tales of a Fantasy Scribbler
Right Brain Spasms
Ken Kizer
Steph-O-Rama

Miscellaneous:


Blisters In May
Goodreads

How-To Blogs - BlogCatalog Blog Directory Add to Technorati Favorites

Creative Commons License
FIVE RINGS by NICK ENLOWE is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at 5-Rings.com. [E]





Copyright © 2007-2012 Nick Enlowe.

MCN: W16-4STV-6080