Holy Crap, the Website is Back!

Please note: This post was published over a year ago, so please be aware that its content may not be quite so accurate anymore. Also, the format of the site has changed since it was published, so please excuse any formatting issues.

After a nearly 5 month downtime, during much of which my site was offline due hacker activity, the site is finally back online!

The short version is that I was using an older version of MovableType and it got exploited. My site was then being used by criminals to attack outside servers and put up fraudulent bank phishing pages. I had no idea this was happening, of course. The first I heard of it was when my hosting company took the site offline. Having a kid slowed down the recovery process insofar as I had basically no time to devote to getting the site up and running again.

I am pleased to report that the site is now free of exploits (as far as I and my host are aware). That said, I’m not sure when “regularly scheduled” blogging will resume.

But that’s a topic for a different post.