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Friday the 13th, a bad-luck message JS/redir.BS for a wordpress website

JS/redir.BS is a malaware that silently is stored in your website and will cause something ugly to happen: lose access to it. There is no simple way to know when it got there, but several places can give you a clue on how to get rid of it. Important advice: take care of your website security, create backups and change passwords every now and then! Wordpress is a strong tool, but not invensible. As I know how to control my computer and get rid of malaware, I decided to create a simluation in my computer, that was risky, but the fastest way to do it instead of waiting for the hosting company to help me. I did a clean installation of Wordpress last version, the one I use in my website. As I was suspicious of the theme, that was the first thing I copied from the server to my laptop. When I tried to move the theme folder to my local Wordpress installation, there it was. My Antivirus poped-up and blocked the virus, luckily it was just in the header file. If you still can access to wp-

When a smart guy make something big....but in the wrong place....

This story just amazed me....again the security system in the world is under review because someone threatened it...without knowing it!. A smart UK guy is to be condemned to US prision (considered a terrorist threat) by hacking and US security department wants him to be extradited. He was obsessed of UFOs since he was a child, and loved virtual games, spent most of his time "hacking" but hacking is not bad, until you go happily into the US NASA Space Center, Navy and even the Department of Defense, after creating a "simple" perl script that discover thousands of passwords, letting the security under risk....but he was only searching for UFOs signs and best of all, he is autist. After reading the story, I was guessing about how is this to be considered a bad moral action, at the end he was only searching for evidence of UFOs, and as per his declaration, he did not mean to threat the security, but only spent his time and search something that he really enjouys with. W