Blogger hack

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

Everything seems back to normal after Blogger got hacked this morning. While it was out I read about this crap viral spam effort too.

Gee in the little more than a year since I’ve had this site I’ve had a hosting company go out of business, leaving all of their customers in the lurch, my ICQ account was targeted and hacked, the new hosts server was hacked and my site defaced, and Blogger has been hacked twice. Between all of that and the normal virus/spam/spyware/bad software issues I’m beginning to wonder if being online is even worth all of this crap anymore. Maybe I’ll go find a less stressful hobby.

Share with your friends!
LinkedInRedditBuffer

Similar Posts

CDW

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

As a corporate customer of CDW they created a little extranet for me to use to keep track of quotes and purchases and all of that sort of stuff. One of the really neat things is that there’s a tab I can click to see if my account rep or any of the “specialists” assigned…

Morning Notes

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

John Hiler says: This is the dark side of blogging: the emphasis it puts on our egos. If I write something and someone else blogs it on their site… well all of a sudden, I feel validated and great about myself. Same thing goes with press mentions: you read a few articles that mention you…

Snow day

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

My boss called my house around 6:30 this morning to tell me that the office was going to be closed today, and Angela’s boss did the same even earlier, so we have a 4 day weekend to celebrate the holiday. On the other hand, I spent almost about 45 minutes outside trying to dig my…

4 years running

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

A quick look back to the beginning of the archives shows me that come Oct. 8. this here weblog will be 4 years old. That’s a whole lot of posts and a whole lot of writing, but I’ve enjoyed doing it and think it was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. More importantly,…

Clean up on aisle 5!

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

I got home from my parents house last night, talked to Angela on the phone for a little while, read my email, wrote a few more, grabbed a new webcam pic, went to upload it to the site, and discovered something interesting. “Hmm, why do I have a default.htm, and an index.html in my main…

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.