anima wrote:
I posted this below in one of the threads, but htought I'd post it here too, just for FYI.
It looks like my site was hit possibly by the same folks who hit this one a few weeks back, they took me (all 7 of my websites) down twice in two days. I believe they may have got in through a wordpress exploit on one of the other sites. I'm not convinced of this though because on the same day as my initial hack, I got an email from from my webhost stating that they were moving my account (with all 7 sites) to a new server due to "instability" - hmmmm, instability my ass, their server got hacked and they don't have the balls to admit it if you ask me.
It is interesting that Dale and I share the same webhost, the same webhost that in 2007, had 3500 people have root accounts hacked when the webhost somehow failed to encrypt their account passwords - one guy had several hundred websites in his account that got hacked.
The bit of code they tried to insert into pages merely broke the php code, so I think no real harm done to anyone.
At any rate I have plugged the holes, and rebuilt the sites and sql databases from clean backups, changed all passwords, deleted all infected files, and switched to sftp.
uilleannforum.com is now back up and running
Jeff
My sympathies, Jeff. I'm still trying to recover. I do wonder about the webhosting company, Dreamhost, and what role they might have played in it.
That said, I had installed a number of phpBB boards and Wordpress installations that I neglected and failed to update (because they weren't being used, for the most part) and so I certainly may have opened myself up to a backdoor invasion (so to speak).
Some of my websites, such as the teen driving thing, I had moved sometime ago to Google. chiffandfipple.com and righthandpointing.com, with Rich's help, are rebuilt and reconfigured and I'm hoping they'll be ok for the long haul.