englishteeth.co.uk

It’s been a while since I posted, it’s been a busy few months. However the inertia is certainly partially down to me feeling that I needed to post about the site attack by some phishing scam towards the end of last year.

All of a sudden traffic to the site peaked massively, but the first I noticed was a couple of comments on posts that I almost dismissed as spam themselves. To the senders of those e-mails, I apologise.

Grant wrote:

You or someone using your website is sending fradulent, illegal phishing mail to customers of Bank of America. If it’s you, you’ll end up in jail. If it isn’t, someone you know, or not, will be going to jail soon. While there, they will have a broomstick rammed up their asshole.

Nice sentiment…

Veritas wrote:

Someone hacked you blog and is using it to redirect for phishing

Brendan wrote:

how ironic that the most recent post on your site is on security…as your site is being used by a phishing scam…from an email i just got from “Wells Fargo”

Not that I feel responsible for the exploitation, but perhaps that I didn’t resolve it as quickly I could.

As soon as I realised what was going down, I contacted my hosting provider, locked down my site and wondered a little at the ingenuity I found in the files that had found there way into the darkest recesses of my directory structure.

Then, feeling a little vulnerable, I guess I pulled down the shutters and hid.

I haven’t been reading as much this week. I’ve been tired.

Though the titbits that have stood out have included:

• Andrew Tokeley’s blog here
• an application to turn you into a Simpson’s character here
• the home page of The Kills, who I saw on Friday here
• Gareth’s trouble with his new PS3 here
• and Alex miller’s blog, here.

I have no real problems with the WordPress administration interface, but I do like the look of Fluency Admin. I’ll have to give it a try when I get the chance.

Also, since I’m always curious and a little self absorbed, I might use this for a view on my stats. (Since it doesn’t track logged-in users, my use of the site shouldn’t skew things.)

However, before doing any of that must install WP-Cache 2.0, especially in light of this coding horror post. In fact, if I haven’t done it by the time I post this, I should give myself a kicking.

It looks like a successful upgrade to WordPress version 2.5 missing out RC2 entirely!

Not really sure what is different to RC1, but if I’m told to upgrade, I’m pretty easily swayed.

I’m more pre-occupied with my parallel change of theme to Freshy2 with the customisation plug-in. There’s loads of options to play with, but I still don’t quite know…