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. ) :(

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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.

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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!

computer landscape via Yale Digital images

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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Topic for Illustration Friday: safari.

As if. I would never go to Africa and watch animals kill each other. Vomit.

flight attendant asks passenger if he wants to sit in business class or cargo

I guess I would go somewhere, however. If I could get over my fear and loathing of the despicable TSA which considers us all terrorists, instead of targeting the likely, which they should. UGH.

Cartoon caption: Welcome to Universal Airlines, sir. First Class or Livestock?

Well, this guy isn’t going to a safari, but perhaps he’ll be treated like an animal.

I have another air travel cartoon here, which I did for Wordless Wednesday. (I never do cartoons for Wordlesss Wednesday anymore – I like words too much!)

Also, check out this week’s cartoons on Psychology Today:

Charlie Sheen cartoon for normal people

Eat brains cartoon

Found on Facebook. I rarely click on videos, find most of them uninteresting, but I clicked on this one, and am I glad I did! It’s only just over a minute, which is also sweet.

Clever. I think the OP on Youtube calls it the Ultimate Tease. It is!

Here’s my promise to you: if you don’t laugh, I’ll owe you $5. Put it on my tab.

Even in school. It’s cooler to be politically INcorrect, of course. And teachers never are. They have unions and pensions, and toe the line.

For Illustration Friday, topic: Lesson.

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I hope the kid in this cartoon learns the lesson that it’s okay to make a mistake, but it’s better to be mathematically correct.

Cartoon caption: Student and teacher look at chalkboard where kid has just written 3 plus 5 equals 7. Title: Mathematically Incorrect.

Interpretation: Obviously the title is a takeoff on the overused, and misused phrase, “politically incorrect.”

Also: Since Mother’s Day is this weekend, 2 Mother’s Day cartoons for you:

A talk radio Mother’s Day cartoon.

A political Mother’s Day cartoon.

Not that I’ve ever shied away from that.

Topic for Illustration Friday: Stir.

chef cartoon - chef can't concentrate on food prep with radio on

Part of my Daily Special restaurant cartoons series that I do for a lot of papers.

Yeah, I love talk radio. Just discovered I Heart Talk Radio blog, who does it better. Maybe it’s because in SoCal we’re in cars a lot, but radio is still big here. (I am rarely in my car, so what’s my excuse?) It’s kind of a treat, and I don’t listen every day – I find it very distracting, since I concentrate on what they’re saying and I can’t read or do cartoons with it on. But when I’m just kicking back, or organizing or cleaning (ugh) it’s great.

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