We all know we should keep our webware up to date to avoid security vulnerabilities. But some of us get careless sometimes and let things slide.<\/p>\n
Bad idea. Hackers entered this site through my publishing wiki. The wiki had not been very active lately (it’s hard to get a gaggle of publishing people together on anything), and I hadn’t been giving it a lot of thought. I think the hackers might have entered through a vulnerability in the wiki’s search function. The vandals weren’t particularly technologically sophisticated, but they defecated porn links all over the site. I was up until 3:00AM cleaning up the mess.<\/p>\n
Everything should be okay now (it’s possible I might have overwritten a few of the latest revisions to some pages). Since the wiki wasn’t getting a lot of use, I might redo its most useful content as plain html pages for the moment.<\/p>\n
Many thanks to Dusk Peterson for calling the attack to my attention!<\/p>\n
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