Hackers.. Crackers.. Bots searching the internet for something to kill…
I really think I have been an offer for one of those the last couple of days.
To say it shortly, while writing one of my articles the site started to tell me about no database updates was successful. And it didn’t matter if I clicked on plugins, my homepage, users or anything. Everything kept showing the same. Sometimes I was lucky and got trough to the thing I was trying to reach. But then I tried to submit a form or change something it kept coming back.
It then stroke me that I should check out the frontpage… Phew… Nothing, everything went normally. I then clicked on the About page. “File not found” (shown from wordpress) and my layout was gone!
Crap! I then clicked around between the pages. In about 1/20 tries the site would show perfectly, the others it would make the “file not found” thing.
It became clear that this could not continue if my users (I’m thinking about you people! ) could not reach my site in 19/20 tries. So I began rolling back the backup.
A few minutes later and everything was going smoothly… But wait, now I missed big parts of my articles! That just couldn’t be true. And before I knew of it the “attack” was back on. It was there I decided to pull the plug. I saved what could be saved and killed the database and deleted all files.
Next morning, after reading lots of security articles, I began installing WordPress once again. This time with extreme passwords on everything and now I’ve made it so I can easily send myself a backup of my database right after publishing an article. And the files is going to be backed up once or twice a week.
But the important thing is that I’m back. And I’m back with more articles later today if I get the time on my hands.