a little strange
Hmm. was it all a dream? No, my blog is looking weird, it’s not a dream. It all started with a very strange email I got the other day from someone going by the title Anonymous Security Specialist. There was no reply email path, and it looked like spam, but after reading it, it had me unsure. Normally I am very good with spam and that sort of thing, but I couldn’t see the payoff in this one. Basically it was an email warning me that my version of WordPress (then 2.3) was vulnerable to some sort of SQL blind fishing attack and that he could tell my blog was already compromised, and was linking to some very dubious websites etc… I had a look and couldn’t see any sign of this but after a look on google and a rational think through, I decided to upgrade the blog anyway, since this was something I had been planning for a long while. So, upgrade to WordPress 2.5. Don’t follow the short guide on the wordpress site. It sucks! Do your homework. This is a good place to start. Anyway, I backed up my database and did the upgrade, and of course there were problems. Something to do it seems with my choice of template. Which brings me to K2. I uninstalled it and the blog came good, but now I’m having trouble with reinstalling it. The header won’t load and there are lots of small issues. I’ll get there. But what is most strange to me is this. After my blog was upgraded, but BEFORE the front page would work, I got an email saying I’d had a comment at the blog. I quickly looked and posted at the end of a post called Upgrade or Die (which has to do with cameras, not blogs, but nonetheless) there was a short comment which simply said, “well done, dude.” Was this the mysterious security consultant again? Or was this instead a nasty hacker who tricked me into upgrading, and waited all the while to grab control and do something dastardly? As I know nothing about hacking, I’ll have to hope it was the ASS (almost a suitable acronym). At the end of the day I have upgraded my blog. I still need to fix it, but I suppose that forces me to learn a little more about bloody wordpress…. Oh, and if anyone knows of a better template that looks really cool and has similar functionality to K2, I’d love a tip.
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