StyleMac, being a rather old site by todays measures, had been based on WordPress 1.5.2. I’d long thought about updating it to a recent version, but just as I couldn’t find time to post I couldn’t find time to update it. This hit back some weeks ago, when a WordPress 1.5.2 exploit surfaced, that allowed to gain control over the System and thus infected StyleMac with lots of spam. The attacker modified my templates and most of the content in the db. All entries were befouled with spam for all kinds of products.

During the past 2 weeks I’ve been working on not only updating WordPress to a recent version but also transferring the site to a new, faster, server. StyleMac runs on a SVN WordPress 2.6 Bleeding now – which makes it a lot easier for me to update to newest revisions. So, all of the uglier effects of the past exploit are be gone now and should not happen again.