Hacked!

On top of being framed (and yes, they’re still there), my site was recently hacked. Some­how someone man­aged to edit a post, adding a script and a bunch of porn keywords to two posts. And man­aged thereby to elev­ate their site to the front page of Google searches on those strings, in some cases the num­ber one hit, so it’s clear why they did it. I found these while brows­ing through the search engine strings (teen porn keywords are not usu­ally searches that find my site), found the posts and stripped out the offend­ing divs. It’s not obvi­ous to me how they got in, but since the Word­Press devel­op­ment blog has been warn­ing of secur­ity exploits, I assume it’s one of them. So I upgraded to the latest ver­sion, 2.1, and would advise any­one else run­ning Word­Press to do the same. 

Between the AFF people and these hack­ers, I do some­times won­der wheth­er blog­ging is worth­while for someone like me, who does­n’t blog a lot. Sort of takes the fun out of it.