Imagine my consternation this morning when I opened my blog page to discover I had been hacked by some group claiming to be Turkish Islamic Terrorists. My wordpress database was gone, or so I thought.
Apparently, there is a back door that WordPress admins should be aware of. In the wp-config.php file, there are four special lines of code that need to have unique data in them, or the wordpress database itself can be open to attack. I’ve no clue how this actually works, yet. But the good folks at Fatcow.com, my web hosting provider, got me back online quickly, and provided a terrific link to another blog that had the info I needed to protect myself from this permanently. That entry is at idratherbewriting.
Good luck to all you blog admins out there, and thanks to the support staff at Fatcow.
