I discovered today that I’d been hacked earlier this week by a spam link injection attack. I’m still not sure how it happened, but I believe I’ve cleaned out all of the offending PHP from my WordPress installation. I’ve also removed most of my plug-ins in the process, and I may have broken some things in my zeal to clean up the site. My apologies for any inconveniences, and my thanks to @awaisathar and @gsingers for helping me resolve this quickly.
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Daniel, note that all static page links in the blog header produce “Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by”, seems like some configuration error.
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Ofer, thanks for the heads up. Will try to get that fixed today.
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I’m so sorry. It’s the same sadness as I lost my notebook.
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Patched now. I still am not sure what’s going on with the PHP headers, but I’ll settle for duct tape if it holds up.
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I know just how you feel similar thing happened to me last year hope your all sorted know
donbrad
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[…] Recovering From Being Hacked – well known IR blogger and recent Google hire (good call peeps), Daniel Tunkelang had his WP hacked and whacked with some ‘a spam link injection attack(s)’. See? It can happen to anyone, even Googlers! […]
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[…] Recovering From Being Hacked – well known IR blogger and recent Google hire (good call peeps), Daniel Tunkelang had his WP hacked and whacked with some ‘a spam link injection attack(s)’. See? It can happen to anyone, even Googlers! […]
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