Photowalking.org

This morning I woke up to check my email and then the status of my multiple blogs. Right away I saw an email telling me that the recent San Diego photowalk announcement had been modified. Well, this can’t be…since I am the only one who can publish and modify posts after they are published. I immediately knew something was wrong.

So, I shot over to my administration panel for this blog. WHAT! The title had been changed! I quickly loaded the site in another tab and freaked out. I saw a blog post saying that I had been hacked and it included some really lame graphics claiming the hacking victory.

With some super-sleuthing I found the details of the intrusion and quickly began the repair process. I notified a couple of blogging friends, Raoul and Brian, and they provided some sound wisdom to help me complete the repair, and fix the broken part of my security.

I discovered that the failure was in my using the simple plugin that allowed us to have a basic forum, right here on the blog. If you’ve used the forum, then you know that it’s not full featured, but useful. So, I’ve disabled and deleted the plugin and the software. This deletion also included the entire forum. Sorry.

However, I went ahead and installed the very sound and secure phpBB forum software. Much like Wordpress, it rocks! There’s nothing there, and it looks like a basic install, but it’s there. Feel free to head over there, register, and post a topic for discussion.

Come join the discussion!