PSA: Security Alert for Bludomain customers
Last Updated on Sunday, 8 November 2009 09:05 Written by Theresa Sunday, 8 November 2009 12:31
Argh, really if you haven’t found out by now, there are blog hackers out there really screwing things up. I’ve had quite a few old and new clients coming to me for help because their blogs are suddenly “missing”. Luckily I’ve gotten them all back and running. Oddly though, they’ve all been Bludomain customers. Hmmm…wonder why? Well, (among other things) Bludomain is notorious for recycling passwords for their hosting customers. I have no idea if they instruct their customers to change the passwords for the cpanels and ftp sites, but apparently a lot of people don’t bother changing them. If you host with Bludomain and are just hearing about this for the first time, please please PLEASE CHANGE YOUR PASSWORDS. You’ll thank me for it later (although obviously not paying me to fix your hacked-into blog…hmph). Maybe you’ll remember that I was kind enough to post this little PSA and will hire me to do a little work on your blog in the future (wink wink nudge nudge). 
While I’m on this mission to save-everyone’s-blog-from-biting-the-dust, I wanted to remind ALL of you (yes, I mean you, not just Bludomain customers) to have a database backup plugin running on your blog on at least a weekly basis. ALSO, it’s a good idea to do a FULL BACKUP of your site’s content. Depending on your hosting company, this can be done through your control panel and/or your ftp site. Why a full backup of the content? Well, because a database backup only saves the blog’s content in code, but not all the zillions of image files, videos, etc… that you undoubtedly have attached to your blog and you may very well lose in case of a server failure, which your host should take care of with their own backups, but it’s good to be safe.
M’kay, my job is DONE.
