You ain't nobody 'til you've been hacked

Written by: burt
Date: April 20, 2008
Filed under: Life of Burt
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Just found out that the osWorld blog suffered an injection a few days ago. Shock, horror! Some nefarious (or genius) person exploited a known Wordpress vulnerabiliaty to add a bunch of links in the header and footer of the blog. Ah well, shit happens - at least I am a somebody now ;)

Thanks to Will for the heads-up as I wouldn't have noticed otherwise - just shows what priority osWorld gets these days.

In Other News

I updated osWorld to WP2.5 - I'm not overly keen on it as I feel it's a step sidewards rather than a step forwards, maybe I'll get used to the new layout in time.

Come May, I'll be hoping to get at least 1 post per day on osWorld - in recent weeks, posting has taken a nosedive due to other projects (both online and offline) getting in the way. It's time to PUMP UP THE VOLUME again ;)

And, lastly, but not leastly, I'm sorry to say that Dave has left osWorld to concentrate on offline ventures - good luck Dave!

Comments

  1. Comment by Chance — April 20, 2008 @ 6:34 am

    I think my Geocities page got hacked when I was 12. I always knew my mom was right when she told me I'm special.

  2. Comment by Paul Forcey — April 20, 2008 @ 4:33 pm

    The trader online forum , which is where I met Gary, has been hacked a few times over the last week or so.
    They just wipe out all the posts, it really seems a pointless exercise to me. At least your hacker got some links out of it.

  3. Comment by Mike K-H — May 4, 2008 @ 12:12 pm

    As you know, one of my blogs (still on 1.2) got done at about the same time. I'm ashamed to say I haven't got round to upgrading (several) WP installations yet…

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