Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Doug Chaplin's blog hacked?

Unless Doug Chaplin is in the middle of an elaborate hoax on himself, it seems that his clayboy blog is the victim of a hacking attack. Sympathies, Doug, and I hope that all will be back to normal soon. In the mean time, a reminder to us all of the dangers of such things. Heck; has anyone got any guidance on how to avoid such attacks?
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4 comments:

  1. T. Michael W. Halcomb6 August 2009 at 00:03

    Well, for starters have a strong username and pword. But, I use BLogger Backup, a free backup utility. Google it and download it; its great. So, if you do get hacked, you just upload the file and your content is restored.

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  2. Mark Goodacre6 August 2009 at 00:16

    Many thanks, Michael. I am using it as we speak!

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  3. Tim Ricchuiti6 August 2009 at 00:38

    i think it might just be his domain that's been hacked, rather than the blog. not that it's making much difference right now.

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  4. Mark Goodacre6 August 2009 at 00:48

    Good point, Tim; that means that it's worth backing up files located through any of the domains we have the rights to as well.

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