Hacked: Someone Is Adding Posts To My Website

The process all starts before you get hacked. If your weblog is currently safe and you do not already do so, be sure that that you are taking a regular backup of your work. There are stacks of available useful plugins to do this for you and if the worst happens, then you have a way out.

But, if you have been hacked then what are you going to do? If you are not hosting the weblog yourself then you need to ask for heaps of help from whoever hosts the weblog and they will need to clean up the hosting. However, with FTP access you should be able to sort it yourself, but you might still want to tell your hosts so they might work out what has happened and why.

And sadly, the first thing to do is to close the weblog down. If you might move it to a different host then fabulous, but that is not an option for most people. Run an immediate backup of your weblog and store the files produced somewhere safe, but it is possible that you are going to merely be deleting them anyway.

If you have been uploading images and videos to your blog then you really need to get your hands on copies of these. If you have the originals then marvelous, else download them back off your server. But virus scan each and every one of them and ensure that they are all what you expect them to be. In all honesty, if you could do without them then just delete them.

Next, delete the entire database (hence taking a copy earlier) and delete all of the files on your server. Delete everything, don’t leave a single file there as you do not know what the hackers have done.

Now, reinstall the blog from a safe copy of the files. Download the latest WordPress files or whatever you are using and install the blog again. Finally, look through your recent backups of your site and find one that is from before the hacker gained entry. Use that to rebuild your blog.Yes, recent posts will be not there but the risk of using the most recent backups is that you do not know what back doors the hacker has left here and there.

To complete the task you now nee to prove that the version of the website you have restored to is ‘safe’. Look through your settings. Are there any strange permalinks lieing about? What around extra user ids that you don’t recognise, or posts and pages that have been written that don’t belong. Don’t forget that you, or a hacker, could add a post with an old date so that it does not appear at the top of the list. The easiest way to find these is to look through the updated date on the database, just to make certain nothing devious is there.

And once you are back up and running, be certain that you have a strong password, use a good user id, that you are blocking brute force hacking attempts and that your computer is secured. Stop the hacker from coming back in!

Written by Keith Lunt. If you want to know more about setting up an adsense blog, or you need any help or advice regards make money blogging, just call in!

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