Eternal Vigilance
One of the downsides of having multiple sites is that there’s more to manage. I was editing my Squidoo lens this morning to add the Clueless About feed, but the feed kept timing out. After some investigation I determined that someone had hacked the site and inserted various penis-related links into the main index.php file, hidden within a zero-sized font tag. A look at some of my other blogs showed the same problem, as well as world-writable directories. Sigh. So today I’m cleaning up the mess. I’m not sure how the exploit happened yet, but it’s probably a WordPress vulnerability. I was going to write about made for AdSense sites today, but that has to wait now until I fix things. (If you depend on organic search traffic, it’s important to fix these things as soon as you can, before you get penalized for excessive links to bad neighbourhoods…)
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