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News relating to Wildspeak.com
Dec. 17th, 2010 12:33 pmBriefly:
Wildspeak.com has been hacked. Not in an obvious way to people looking, but nevertheless it has been. I'm currently talking with my host/provider to see what I can do and how they can help; but the reality is I never had the technical know-how to run a site like Wildspeak.com. Back seven years ago when hacking was less common and malware less sophisticated, this wasn't such a problem, but I'm not evolving with the technology, and that's just the reality.
I am seriously considering shutting everything down and re-opening the totem information page on something like a Wordpress blog, where they have the paid employees to do the heavy lifting when it comes to things like security.
The fact is, I just have no idea what I'm doing. I'm probably a PITA for my host, and I can't afford to pay someone to regularly look after the security of the site and the back-end in regards to coding and so on.
Just to let you know that if Wildspeak.com mysteriously disappears and then mysteriously never comes back, you know why.
ETA: My host got back to me in less than ten minutes and we've been working on it. I've changed some of the permissions, found the root folder that was hacked and deleted it, changed the password, and am keeping an eye on it vigilantly over the next two weeks. Apparently it's pretty common. That said, my old build forum may be contributing to security problems, and it might mean that I have to really look at whether I can keep the forum. BUT; we'll see.
Wildspeak.com has been hacked. Not in an obvious way to people looking, but nevertheless it has been. I'm currently talking with my host/provider to see what I can do and how they can help; but the reality is I never had the technical know-how to run a site like Wildspeak.com. Back seven years ago when hacking was less common and malware less sophisticated, this wasn't such a problem, but I'm not evolving with the technology, and that's just the reality.
I am seriously considering shutting everything down and re-opening the totem information page on something like a Wordpress blog, where they have the paid employees to do the heavy lifting when it comes to things like security.
The fact is, I just have no idea what I'm doing. I'm probably a PITA for my host, and I can't afford to pay someone to regularly look after the security of the site and the back-end in regards to coding and so on.
Just to let you know that if Wildspeak.com mysteriously disappears and then mysteriously never comes back, you know why.
ETA: My host got back to me in less than ten minutes and we've been working on it. I've changed some of the permissions, found the root folder that was hacked and deleted it, changed the password, and am keeping an eye on it vigilantly over the next two weeks. Apparently it's pretty common. That said, my old build forum may be contributing to security problems, and it might mean that I have to really look at whether I can keep the forum. BUT; we'll see.
