Lots of hacking lately!
In recent years this blog has been infected with malware twice. I’ve posted about this before.
There are nearly daily efforts to brute-force guess passwords, or exploit other known WordPress weaknesses. Sometimes they succeed. Honestly, many WordPress weaknesses seem intentional, and the people doing the hacking are anything but amateurs. This is clearly something well organized, and with a lot of money and power behind it. The goal seems to not necessarily directly bring down the blog, but rather to breach the security covertly, be in control of it, and able to ‘pull the plug’ any time they want. This all seems eerily related to the Edward Snowden leaks, and the fact that all major superpowers are known to engage in Internet hacking. Of course corporations are not free of guilt in this area either, and we all know I’ve pissed some of them off. It all seems childish and undemocratic.
Anyway, if this blog suddenly disappears someday, this is probably why.
For the time being, the solution seems to be to turn on comment moderation, and limit some Internet address ranges. This means if you happen to have an Internet address close to the hackers, and I’ve been over enthusiastic, I might have limited your IP address too by mistake. I don’t think many people will have this kind of problem. If however you get any error messages or have any trouble viewing any pages or posting comments, please get in touch so I can look into it.
