Nadia Lee :: Romance Writer

Last night, my site got hacked, and my hosting service suspended my account. It turned out that some @#$% got in and installed a phishing script on my server. Thankfully, my host didn't delete my account, and they gave me some tips on how to deal with the security issues. Unfortunately I had to delete my newsletter script from my nadialee.net site, but that's really minor since it could've been WordPress, which powers my entire website & blog. (FYI -- I upgrade WordPress religiously.)

So in order to prevent the @#$% that had happened to me from happening to you, I suggest that you upgrade your scripts & applications you have on your server. I'm talking about things like WordPress (the core), plug-ins, Joomla, forums, etc.

And all you hackers & phishing scammers out there -- there's a special place in hell just for you.

How's everyone doing?

BTW -- My site host is having a lot of problems with its email server. If you sent me an email requiring my response but haven't heard back, please resend later or leave me a comment with your contact information, and I'll be happy to send you a note from my gmail account.

Thanks!

1. I'm not looking for critique partners anymore. If you're thinking about contacting me because you saw my wanted post, please don't. Thanks.

2. I'm going on a hiatus. No personal problems or crises here. It's just that I'm in the middle of working on my new project ideas, characters, etc. and I don't want to be distracted. This also means I won't be on IM or Twitter, for those of you who have my contact info there. I will, of course, be available via email. I will blog, but not as often as before.

3. If I have no idea who you are, I'm not going to approve your request to see my Twitter updates. It's not that I'm trying to be exclusive or elitist, but I just don't feel comfortable adding strangers I've never met in real life or online before, esp. because I tend to yap a lot about a lot of inconsequential stuff there.