Woke up the other day to find that all the WordPress blogs on one of my hosting accounts had been hacked. So this post is about how I fixed the security problem and how to protect your blog.

Usually the first thing I do in the mornings is walk around the top of the mountain, but I’d been a bit freaked out by a big brown snake the day before, so I decided to give walking a miss.

I don’t know what type of snake it was because quite a few are brown, but I do know that some of the snakes around here always make World’s Top 10 Deadliest Snake lists. So if I see one I’m off in the other direction. Which in this case was straight back home. Yep I’m a coward.

And I’m scared of really rich beautiful women too. And mayonnaise

Don’t ask about the mayonnaise. It’s a long story involving spiteful aunts, priests, and choirboys and I’m not about to tell it here. Well not today anyhow

So back to the hacking, and WordPress security and what to do about it. Continue reading →