{"id":1276,"date":"2010-09-22T08:39:21","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T22:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2010-09-23T10:47:16","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T00:47:16","slug":"not-fun-being-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2010\/09\/not-fun-being-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Not fun being hacked&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, my site was one of many attacked by a well known hacker (called the Turkish Hacker or Iskorpitx according to the messages left behind). Over a period of about 5 days he apparently hacked over 30,000 sites, mostly by getting into host servers (as happened in my case).<\/p>\n<p>So my first message today is sorry if you tried to visit my site or send me emails yesterday. Although I did rectify my site reasonably quickly once I knew, my host later took down all their sites and reinstalled their servers so my site was offline.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t make my second message what I think of people who have nothing better to do with their time than annoy people around the world just because they can.<\/p>\n<p>Here are my top tips to minimise the hassles of being hacked&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>have a great password &#8211; your surname, business name or kids&#8217; initials really aren&#8217;t good enough<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"back up websites\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2009\/10\/backing-up-is-a-winner\/\" target=\"_blank\">back up your site<\/a> regularly so it&#8217;s easier to replace it as needed &#8211; or even move to another host<\/li>\n<li>choose your host carefully &#8211; look for their security, how they will deal with issues and how much they will help you<\/li>\n<li>if you need to <a title=\"giving information via email\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2009\/02\/payment-via-credit-card\/\">give a password<\/a> to someone else (eg a web designer) be careful how you tell them &#8211; certainly don&#8217;t put it in an email with the subject &#8220;website password&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>remove anything from your site that isn&#8217;t needed if it is sensitive in any way<\/li>\n<li>use the most recent version of any software on your site (e.g. the software to run a blog) as it will have recent security developments included and probably has fewer successful hacks set up<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Do you have any additional tips?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, my site was one of many attacked by a well known hacker (called the Turkish Hacker or Iskorpitx according to the messages left behind). Over a period of about 5 days he apparently hacked over 30,000 sites, mostly by getting into host servers (as happened in my case). So my first message today is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,53,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bit-off-track","category-business-info-tools","category-web-content"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1281,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions\/1281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}