Virtua Gallery - A photographic Journal

Yesterday evening I opened my site to find this in the header:

It took me about 2 mins to restore the “natural” order - but of course I went out and looked for vulnerabilities and shored up my security. If you encounter any problems while commenting etc.
please let me know.

Here are some tips on what I did - and you might want to look into, if you have your own site.

1. Changed my password(s) to a longer and difficult one, using digits in upper and lower case,
numbers and special characters like ^,% etc.

2. Read up on security measures for my particular Blog system (Wordpress). There are numerous
good sources out there for others, like, Typepad, Movable Type etc.

3. Password protected my Admin area

4. Performed a security scan, using the wordpress online security scanner

5. Installed AskApache Plugin to additionally shore up against exploits

6. Installed LoginLockDown, to prevent bruteforce Password decryption attempts

7. Installed WP-Scan, to check the overall vulnerability.

A good measure for security is also to keep your software up to snuff - update frequently. Not only the
main software, but also your plugins. Equally important is to read up upon them. Some are really shoddy,
when it comes to security, and it was one of those, that enabled my hacker to gain access.

All in all it goes to show, that no one is safe - even a puny little photo blog like mine can become a target.

So tighten up and do what it takes to give those crazies out there a run for their money!