News and Views from Dave Wilson

Archive for February 4th, 2009

I got hacked!

by on Feb.04, 2009, under Computer

It’s been a whacky day on the blog today. I woke up this morning to a note from my hosting company telling me that webartz.net had been suspended due to excessive email traffic. After a day of email exchanges with Total Choice Hosting (who are, by the way, a truly excellent web host – their server uptime is unsurpassed and their support is superb) I got in to the account this evening and discovered that someone had managed to upload 2 PHP scripts into the images/upload directory and were using these to send spam.

This is the second time in a couple of years that I’ve had something like this happen resulting in site downtime. The blog has been powered by pMachine which, although easy to use, apparently has some security holes. Unfortunately, it is no longer supported so I think it’s time for me to migrate to WordPress instead. As a result, you may see some changes and a lack of posts for a few days while I get the new code installed and figure out how to migrate the existing posts between the two systems.

Wish me luck!

(This entry was actually posted on the old blog before the “Pardon our dust” but got out of order thanks to a time zone error on the old blog. Apologies for any confusion!)

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