July 23rd, 2010

This past week you may have noticed some…strange happenings here. Briefly put, we (and other websites) were subjected to a code injection exploit that (erroneously) indicated the presence of some bad things online. The good news: There was no malware of any kind on the site. So you can rest easy.

And although it would make a better blog entry to attribute this to some sort of ninja payback, the truth is far more prosaic. In reality, this was most likely an automated attack, which could have originated anywhere. Such is life on the information superhighway.

One other bit of good news: After cleaning up our code, I added some server side rules which should make this type of exploit much more difficult in the future.

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming…

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