Category Archives: Site News

SOS is taking a year-end holiday break — Happy Holidays to all, see you in the new year!

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I recently discovered a very persistent infection on this site — it turns out that some old Wordpress plugin was insecure, and as a result was giving an outside party a backdoor into the site. So my apologies if they were able to use this to push any malware at you (although it appears the backdoor was more likely used to enlist SOS in DDOS attacks on other sites).

So the good news — the infection is gone, and shouldn’t be coming back. The bad news — I’ve had to update how I handle permalinks to SOS posts, so not only will old incoming links be broken, but a lot of folks following SOS via RSS readers will see every one of SOS’ 4 years of blog posts reappear in their readers.

Again, my apologies for any inconveniences this inflicts on people — but it appears to be the price of clearing up this security problem.

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SOS needs to move to a new hosting service; things will be funky in the meantime. Please stay tuned… Continue reading →

Just so everybody’s up to date with what’s going on, I rebuilt the site’s database over the weekend, and it looks like nothing important was lost. Meanwhile, I’ve slimmed the site down a bit (got rid of some bells & … Continue reading →

Database is messed up, I’ll need to pop the hood and mess around over the next few days…

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Just wanted to let folks know that I upgraded the site’s Wordpress software over the weekend. This should be entirely transparent to you, but if you find SOS behaving oddly in any way, please drop me a line and let me know…

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Anybody who spends much time with computers or web sites can attest to the fact that they can be a bit… testy… at times. If you’ve tried to look at the SOS web site over the past few days, you might have an inkling of how this applies to you and me right now…

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