hburgnews.com

Comment from Josh
Time: April 22, 2008, 5:53 pm

P.S. The spam links in the main page code should be gone now as well. Let us know if you see anything weird.

Comment from finnegan
Time: April 22, 2008, 5:59 pm

Oh, and a big thanks to Josh for helping me diagnose the problem today.

Comment from Emmy
Time: April 22, 2008, 6:28 pm

Thanks for fixing it Brent and Josh!!! We missed it and figured that you’d never let us blog sit again!! Glad its back!

Comment from Evan
Time: April 22, 2008, 6:37 pm

Bravo. Congrats on the technical accomplishments. I was at a loss.

Comment from Chris
Time: April 22, 2008, 6:45 pm

Thanks for spending the day working on the site. It was missed.

Comment from Dave Briggman
Time: April 22, 2008, 9:12 pm

Glad it’s back and working again…nothing like 10,000,000 links of garbage on a BlackBerry screen. :-)

You might try http://firewallscript.com

It would likely prevent that from happening again. It’s $85.00 though.

Comment from Barb
Time: April 23, 2008, 6:53 am

Glad everything is up, working, and you are back.

Comment from Barnabas
Time: April 23, 2008, 9:01 am

So what was it, the Black Japes?

Comment from Bubby
Time: April 23, 2008, 9:04 am

Thank God Almighty! I was just about reduced to digging out Granny’s recipe for snapping turtle for that Mennonite boy over at Republitaria- he’s clueless about dressing turtle. But I have to give him credit for pulling such a big one out of Mark Obenshain’s mud-hole.

Comment from finnegan
Time: April 23, 2008, 9:33 am

Technically the site got hacked. Someone or some program (like a spambot) exploited a security flaw in the version of WordPress we were running, and inserted a script in the program, which knocked out the ability to post.

I just got off the phone with Jason, who thinks it might have been a flawed script: the idea being that the hacker or spambot gained entry to post spam on the blog, but in doing so, accidentally killed the ability to post something.

He’s trying to figure out whether the attack was local, or if it came from a Russian spambot.

Comment from Q
Time: April 23, 2008, 10:01 am

Good to know. I was starting to worry (not to mention that I missed the updates). Thanks for getting it back up and running.

Comment from Bryan
Time: April 23, 2008, 11:30 am

have you considered gang activity as the culprit?

Comment from Bubby
Time: April 23, 2008, 12:27 pm

Yeah, why blame the Russkies when we have pre-qualified Latinos, Ragheads, and Roman Catholics as the Threat?

Comment from David Miller
Time: April 23, 2008, 5:42 pm

Brent, Josh and Jason W; thanks for getting it back up. Thanks to all the contributors who tried desperately to fix it in Brent’s absence.

Comment from Ex’burger
Time: April 23, 2008, 9:47 pm

Glad to know it was only a glitch.

Comment from Ex’burger
Time: April 23, 2008, 9:48 pm

P.S. Unfortunately, in the process, hburgnews.com has dropped from the front page of Google when searching “hburgnews.” I imagine you’ll be back up there again soon.