{"id":642,"date":"2012-07-15T07:45:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T07:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astarmathsandphysics.com\/tutor_profiles\/paul_smith\/paul_smiths_blog\/?p=642"},"modified":"2012-07-15T07:45:18","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T07:45:18","slug":"hacked-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2012\/07\/hacked-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacked off"},"content":{"rendered":"

Website was hacked on Friday. Not the sort of hacking I’ve ever seen before either. Previous hackings have left a datestamp on a file, so I could remove malicious code by looking at which files have recently changed, but this hacking changed the datestamp of the file so I hade to open lots of individual files – it took 24 hours to track down the malicious code.
\nThey are getting cleverer all the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Website was hacked on Friday. Not the sort of hacking I’ve ever seen before either. Previous hackings have left a datestamp on a file, so I could remove malicious code by looking at which files have recently changed, but this … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Wm4j-am","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":912,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2012\/11\/hacked-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":642,"position":0},"title":"Hacked Again","author":"taxicle","date":"November 22, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Some ukrainian schoolkid I think, cos I spotted it right away, and the hackers website was anyway closed down today - a few hours into the hack. 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