July 14, 2009
Posted by Sam Jackson
Hackers hit me… again : (
So, given that I am rarely updating this site, it's all the more frustrating that I have to keep doing this reactive work to cover up for the problems that come when it keeps getting hacked. I'm not sure where the vulnerabilities are coming from, honestly; I'm not prepared to say it's a hosting problem, or a wordpress problem, but I'm not sure. In each case someone has had root directory access (not su root, but /* root), and has filled my site with garbage. I only notice each time because Google and their malware prevention partners then flag the site and some helpful users lets me know... eventually. Other times the user numbers went down, but this time, not even. Not sure what that says about the quality of my visitors, or their human vs. robot crawler nature.
Either way, I should have fixed the problem, but it will take some time for me to get out of their poison file. In the meantime I still rank well and my pages are indexed, but you may get warnings. What it was this time was less bad that last, which was masked .htaccess injections which redirected people to malware; this was just an attempt to steal my very juicy PageRank to help boost spammy, evil people.
I hate bad, mean hackers 
I'm currently a rising senior at Yale University and I've been blogging about college admissions and higher education marketing trends since I began my college application process in 2005. I now also write about my experience here at Yale.
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