University World - Wordpress Hacked
I got a lot of emails this past day from users who couldn’t post a comment or view certain posts/categories. Well it seemed word press (where we do most our editing) was hacked through a malicious code that was inserted into the permalinks, it took only a couple of seconds to fix, but to realize what was wrong took a couple minutes. Well everything its alright now, just wanted to let people know what was wrong and that it’s fixed now.
Julian
Jean Dover — October 21, 2009 @ 9:12 am
Wow, Julian, Thank goodness for you. I was blaming Robert for using my computer when he visited us on Monday! What a lack of Mother’s faith that was.
I hope to read more about your experiences at the University. I remember learning a lot about life, and dealing with people when I was at the University of Wisconsin. Believe me life was not simpler then, but that is another story for another time.
Love, Roberts Mom
Sandra McGuire — October 21, 2009 @ 9:47 am
Julian,
Now this is the practical experience that they don’t teach in school. Wordpress is very inclined to getting hacked. We’ve had a couple of clients who use it who have been hit. If you keep the updates going, then you’re pretty safe. But, some of the updates will disable some of the features and play havoc with themes.
Great job getting things up and running so quickly.
The bad news is, you were hacked. The good new is, people are visiting the site and able to find it.
Fellow bit twiddler,
Sandy