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A huge mistake, and disaster averted
Other than not being a woman, I know just how that lady feels. Today was a bad day, and her expression was my exact expression earlier. You’ll notice over to the right, on the twitter feed, the words “OR DON’T.” That was the header image to a post I had written about two separate attacks this month that targeted remote access software. One attack on June 1st compromised TeamViewer, a program I use myself, and the second, more recent attack targeted GoToMyPC, hence the OR DON’T. Get it? Anyway, both were based on password reuse, so change your passwords if you’re affected. Or even if you’re not.
However after I posted it, I noticed that the LightBox functionality was not working on recent posts. LightBox is the function that causes an image to expand when you click on it while darkening the background. It’s only not working on recent posts, for older posts it works fine. I didn’t know why, and started to investigate.
Here’s what happened
Not too long ago I read about many WordPress (which is the authoring platform for this website) plugins being vulnerable to attacks that could inject malicious code or bring down a site. Nothing happened to this one, so I figured it was too small to be a target. However a Saturday update to the Jetpack plugin, which is used extensively on this site and adds significant functionality, borked the whole site and rendered it inaccessible with the following error:
Jetpack crash
As you can see, something is terribly wrong with Line 31.
