It seems that there was a break in to the wordpress site. Oh, well, I guess that happens to lots of sites. Fortunately, I use a random password and I create a new password for each site. No, I don’t remember them all, but I do keep my password list in an encrypted file.
On a related security matter, I must say that wordpress does a great job of spam filtering. The statistics show that I have been hit with 588 spams. All but one of those was automatically detected by the wordpress software. Moreover, there have been no false positives that I know of. Well, I suppose that I can’t be sure, since spam to sufficiently old posts is just auto-deleted and I am only shown spam to recent posts. Still, the accuracy on the ones I have seen is pretty good.
The latest spam begins “It is very interesting for me to read the post.” If the spammers were a little more creative, and actually showed evidence of having read the post they are commenting on, maybe a few would sneak through.
Back to the hacking. It seems not too serious, if we can trust what wordpress says about it. In any case, it is only a blog – it isn’t real life. I heard about the hacking at the dslreports forum, which I frequent.
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