mamamusings: September 3, 2003

elizabeth lane lawley's thoughts on technology, academia, family, and tangential topics

Wednesday, 3 September 2003

site vandalism

I have no idea how or when it happened (apparently not just now, since there are several cached versions of it in Google), but vig-rx managed to replace the contents of one of my blog entries with its vile spam contents.

I discovered this only because it stupidly added a comment to that post today, and when I went to delete the comment spam, I realized the entry itself was gone.

This scares the crap out of me. I don’t know what security hole enabled someone to do this, but whatever it is I want it fixed!!!

Crap. A quick site search indicates that it was two entries. I didn’t have a backup of the original database (just did a dump, which I’ll now start doing on a regular basis), so those two entries are gone for good.

(And I only send an excerpt of my posts in my RSS feed…guess that’s going to change, as well, since otherwise I could have retrieved the originals from Feedster’s cache.)

HELP!!!

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Update: Joi says it’s a Safari bug, which kicked in when I deleted the problem comment. I’ve retrieved the second problem entry from Google’s cache. First one I couldn’t find there.

That’s a pretty big bug. Guess I’m back to using Mozilla.

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