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As many of you know, we have been plagued with a rash
of recent hacking. With many years of website building and
security experience we find this not so unusual. What is unusual is
that the normal cleaning procedures only fixed the issue
temporarily.
We received many suggestions as to how to fix
the continued hacking, including moving the site to a SSl server,
deleting the database, upgrading to the latest Apache and SQL, using
Wordpress and more, all of which have done, but failed. As we
have seen recently, if a hacker wants to hack a site they will find
a way. Many sites with unlimited security budget have been hacked
recently, including the CIA, US senate, US Pentagon, Sony, Nintendo,
Epic, Bethesda, Marathon Oil, Exxon Mobil, Conoco Phillips, Alliance
Data Marketing, Symantec, Northopt/Lockeed, Sedo, CodeMasters,
Google, CitiBank, Bioware, Square Enix, Wordpress, RSA Security, L-3
Communications, Epsilon, ADP and the list goes on. This does not
include companies that conclude they should not release the
information for fear it may damage their reputation.
For someone to claim they cannot be hacked or to claim 100%
security is just plain ignorance. For those that claim "my sites
have never been hacked" it is only because you don't have any
traffic or pure luck. It seems the only option is to clean up after
the fact.
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