For Illustration Friday: swell. I assume that means they want a swell cartoon, so here’s a cartoon about murder, or at least carelessness. Originally published in Psychology Today. You can…
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Topic for Illustration Friday: Remedy. Caption: Women working out at gym. One says, But as it turns out, LA (Los Angeles) is the perfect place to have ADD! So I…
I’ve never used a gag writer. I write and draw all my cartoons, for better or worse.? But I’m writing an article about cartoonists that mentions gag writers. If you…
Note to International visitors: in America, many or most restaurants are closed on Monday. Topic for Illustration Friday: shadows. Cartoon caption: Couple is sitting in restaurant that is totally black…
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It’s always men, right? For Illustration Friday, subject: Asleep. Cartoon caption: Couple is asleep. Sign above woman’s head says No Snoring Section. Gotta say, no matter what else a man…
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Little followup to my post yesterday of how Ipower totally failed when they were hacked (“compromised” is their word) 2 times in one week. Thinking more about it, this is terrible management. First, to have such poor security, and second, not admitting the mistake and TELLING US exactly WHAT they were doing to fix it, and most importantly, make sure it didn’t happen again. All successful businesses admit their mistakes in public, but not Ipower. (although I wish they would man up, and be a better company for it. ) :(
Ipower took down the Facebook note I linked to yesterday, along with all the comments!!! That one concerned the first time they were hacked, 4 days ago. Guess it was too incriminating, with their poor, very late response, their attempt to shift the blame and the cleanup over to their clients, and above all, NOT DOING ANYTHING about the problem. Again, they just told us what we should do, which they copied from the WordPress thread! (However, if you look at their Facebook Note page, you will see a link on the left under Notes which says Notes About, and my Note is right there!)
Today they issued an acknowledgment about the 2nd malware attack.
To all customers whose site has recently been compromised. We have identified the area of intrusion and are now running a script to clean up all sites that have been affected. The clean up should be complete by tomorrow morning. There is no need for anything to be done on your part.
See, here’s the thing. Those of us who got scared again on Sunday when we found it happening again already did that work for you, Ipower. All it took was the Search and Replace plugin. So, yeah, there’s nothing to be done on our part, nor was there the first time, as far as changing passwords, etc. I’m sure it’s to do with MySql, their databases. Dangerous stuff.
Ipower, (Ipower on Facebook, because their other support is useless) has lost it. They just disallowed all comments on Facebook because they have another security breach, and AGAIN allowed malware in all of our sites! And this is after another attack 3 days ago!
Three days ago someone on Twitter told me I had been hacked. There was a popup on all my blogs asking for fake info. WordPress already had threads going on this, and this one has good WordPress solutions. Turns out everyone who got this malware attack uses Ipower as their host! Ipower did nothing and sent no notices in response to the popups and malware attack, instead referring us to the WordPress forums for how to fix it! They took no responsibility and THEY DIDN’T CHANGE ONE THING in Ipower. As far as I know, this was the WORST security breach Ipower has ever had, yet they did…nothing. (Except they did wipe out some blogs in their incompetence, as you’ll see on that thread.)
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