I learned today that my site was hacked and specifically, someone inserted code in my site’s footer. I’m still not sure what, exactly, that code snippet did, but Google and StopBadaware.org thought my site “might harm your computer.”

Google generally pulls any site with questionable malware out of the search results, but when I went into my Webmaster Tools, I saw a malware warning.

Not good.

I assume the hack was caused by one of two things: an easily breakable password or a bug in the Wordpress code. I’ve since changed my password and upgraded to Wordpress 2.5. (If you plan to do this, be sure to back up your database and deactivate all your plugins. I had another blog which I didn’t deactivate all the plugins and ended up spending hours troubleshooting. Having learned my lesson, I deactivated everything and found the upgrade painless and without hitch.)

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