Category: Reports

I have had a persistent issue with new comments (if you have not commented here before, it will queue up for manual approval) not notifying me via email. I have hopefully solved this problem. If you are a new commenter here and it hasn’t shown up in a few days, apologies as this was not intentional censorship.

It appears that due to some stale installations of WordPress on my web hosting account, somebody managed to inject a whole bunch of garbage into the server that is running this website.

From what I can tell the initial intrusion happened in late August, while the thing that caused the site to go down happened on the morning of September 19th.

The script that ran on the machine injected files across practically every available directory on the server. It wasn’t a very subtle hack. It allowed the host to act as a ‘pass through’ – if you ever wonder why hacks these days are almost impossible to geo-locate, it is because they are almost always done through infected servers and this makes things incredibly difficult to trace after the fact.

Anyway, after many hours of polishing off my ancient UNIX skills, I’ve managed to restore this site from my backups and things should be back to normal again.

Divestor is back online – for now!

I could not imagine how anybody that doesn’t know how to navigate within an SSH session could solve this without getting external assistance (read: $$$$). Things are getting really complicated these days.

Any long-time readers here that have long-term memories of the postings over on this website?

I’ve compiled a list of posts that I thought were exceptional pieces. Perhaps you have some additional suggestions.

Check out The Best of Divestor for this compilation and please let me know in the comments if you think anything else should be added to this list.