It’s been an interesting summer — obviously having taken the summer off from writing in HHG with April being my last posted entry — and I’ve walked away with a few observations about Orthodoxy, culture, and plenty of introspective conclusions about myself and the life I lead.
Written and posted by Michael on September 16, 2008, 10:43 am.
Filed under: Culture, Daily Walk, Orthodoxy
Recently, sometime before the process of moving from our old web host and the new hosting environment, someone hacked into our WordPress installation and injected malicious code into about a half dozen of our articles that we had posted on our own experiences. It’s troubling enough that someone would do that to a site such as ours, but even more troubling is that some of their injection attacks completely overwrote some of our content. And if that wasn’t bad enough, the backed up version of the MySQL database that I had was a version with said injections.
The data was full of links to poker sites, iFrame code to a malicious website, and other objectionable content placed on our website without our consent.
The offender was tracked to the IP address 61.155.8.157, which leads to some hosting service in China:
person: Chinanet Hostmaster
nic-hdl: CH93-AP
e-mail: anti-spam@ns.chinanet.cn.net
address: No.31 ,jingrong street,beijing
address: 100032
phone: +86-10-58501724
fax-no: +86-10-58501724
country: CN
changed: dingsy@cndata.com 20070416
mnt-by: MAINT-CHINANET
source: APNIC
I tried e-mailing the host, but of course the anti-spam e-mail address was invalid.
I apologize if this injection caused any inconvenience to our visitors or if it spread any viruses or further injections. We can assure you that we’ve removed all malicious injections and have updated our WordPress installation to the latest version.
As for the missing content, I wish we would have been more aggressive with back-ups. Some of the priceless accounts of our own respective journeys has been defiled by someone hoping for a little more visibility for their gambling site. Pathetic. Simply pathetic.
Written and posted by Michael on September 16, 2008, 9:45 am.
Filed under: General Discussion
