January 2009
2 posts
Over the past year, I’ve contributed a handful of readings to the wonderful Starship Sofa science fiction podcast. Ciaran O’Carroll and Tony C. Smith began the show in 2006, as an in depth discussion of the life and works of a variety of New Wave and Golden Age Science Fiction authors. Ciaran left the show last year, but far from this being the harbinger of podfade, it spurred Tony on to new...
Synopsis:
I detail my experiences with a Wordpress hack across multiple shared hosting sites, the steps taken to recover Wordpress and secure against future attacks.
Introduction:
On the December 15th I discovered a number of my Wordpress installations had been compromised. Rather than a concerted attack, this was likely the result of widely available scripting tools that allow ‘crackers’ to...