As many readers have recently pointed out, UX Digest has been flagged as “hosting malicious activities” causing browser warnings to appear when trying to access this site. This occurred as a result of a link injection attack whereby links to harmful sites (ones that do
host malicious activity) were inserted discretely into multiple posts. Furthermore, I discovered today that the @uxdigest twitter account has also been suspended (whether it’s related or not, I’m not sure yet) and that tweets with links to this site have also been prohibited.
A few words of reassurance to loyal readers:
- UX Digest has never intentionally posted links to harmful websites and never will, nor will it ever host any content that would be harmful to readers. Night Crossing hd Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home full Life as a House movie full Big dvdrip
- All of the injected links have been removed and a fresh copy of the latest version of WordPress has been installed. I am also looking into further security measures to avoid such an attack in the future.
- I submitted the site to Google for review the day after the attack was made and it has since been cleared of all warnings. This means that the site should work properly in your browser now.
I apologize for the inconveniences that has come out of this. While I work on getting everything back to normal, I’d like to thank all the readers for their continued support of UX Digest. Stay put and hopefully we’ll be back to the regularly scheduled program soon!
Update (June 26): The UX Digest Twitter account is back in action! Follow it here. The Golden Compass full Four Christmases
Ouch. Must be extremely frustrating to have this happen to your blog
I’ve had this happen to me a while back, but through the forum software I used. Really annoying having to spend your time cleaning up after these sorts of attacks as well as rebuilding the trust of your visitors. It sucks, but unfortunately it’s the reality of the web right now — popular CMS software gets attacked every second by malicious bots and it’s just something you have to work to protect yourself against. Hope you get it all sorted out with no further problems.
Oh no! It won’t stop me coming here
I only found you a couple of months ago and I find the articles really useful. Did you do anything special to prevent it happening again? I’m worried about my wordpress now :S
I’m sorry to hear this happened to your site but is some ways I am not surprised. Personally, I never use open source software and I write everything myself. Can you not write your own blogging software? That way, people will be totally unaware of any security holes other than yourself.
Are you hosting with Media Temple? Just wondering if this is related to the problems they have been having…