Update on My Hacked and Delisted Website
After some diligent headscratching and web directory searching, I found three suspicious directories on my website that I had never created which seemed to be part of the attack on my website that Google notified me about earlier: "yptkl", "kjkpb" and "uiojc." They were created over the course of a few weeks, so I'm worried this attack is still active.
I asked Google to relist me, but that might take a while. And I'm not sure how to prevent the attacks happening again. So now a web search for my name comes up first with the MySpace page about my cartoons that I do not check or update. Blech. How exactly do I prevent this crap from happening going forward?
2 Comments:
Use a very complex password and change it often. If you have a hard time coming up with one or remembering it then try a password manager like Keepass (or a post-it note).
BLegh. I had to deal with that for one of my webcomics sites only a couple weeks ago. It is such a pain in the tuchus! I went through file by file looking for bad code. Fortunately the annoying files were quite obviously labeled. Joiks!
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