Recently I switched my personal hosting from Dreamhost to WebFaction. I’d been butting up against the resource limits on Dreamhost’s cheap plan for ages, and an annoying multi-day outage was the last straw. The outage was actually pretty interesting, in its way. I discovered that all sites served from a particular user account were having …
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Vulnerable
One of my sites got hacked. How? My spouse tried out a number of WordPress themes while setting up their blog a year or two ago. One of them contained something called timthumb.php, which just this August was found to have a great big security vulnerability. Someone exploited this vulnerability, probably by scanning for every …