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Hacked, and hacked again. How my old site sold anti-depresants?!

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19th May

So, my ranking on google had gone down, I have a link that says my site might be compromised? And to top it off a few visitors have gotten in touch stating that they were directed to a pharmaceutical site. A quick scan on sucuri and,, crap. I’d been hacked. I SSH’d in to my site, did an svn revert. Thanks version control that was easy! Notified my hosting provider. They replied within two days with the usual stuff. Update all your Third Party software, change your passwords, which I had already done but was good to have a checklist.

A week passed. Still seeing Pharmacy adds on google. Another quick scan using sucuri.

theeiiiirrrr baaaaccccccckkkk.

crap.

Now, I’ve heard great things about Sucuri, and VaultPress but I feel like I’d be failing as a developer if I had to resort to Third Party … Read More »


From the web ,,,

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23rd October

These are my links for October 20th through October 24th:

Boing Boing –
A Softer World: 492 –
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
Top 10 Most Common Coding Mistakes in WordPress Plugins « planetOzh –


From the web ,,,

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19th October

These are my links for September 25th through October 19th:

Top 10 Most Common Coding Mistakes in WordPress Plugins « planetOzh –
Apache and IIS PHP $_SERVER Superglobal Comparision –
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error



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