Luke's Lot » wordpress http://blog.lucanos.com A Collection of Plugins, Scripts, Tips and Tricks. As I learn, I will share, and I hope you will do the same. Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:28:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 33,000 hits and over 14Gb of traffic in two days? http://blog.lucanos.com/2008/04/08/33000-hits-and-over-14gb-of-traffic-in-two-days/ http://blog.lucanos.com/2008/04/08/33000-hits-and-over-14gb-of-traffic-in-two-days/#comments Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:41:22 +0000 Lucanos http://blog.lucanos.com/2008/04/08/33000-hits-and-over-14gb-of-traffic-in-two-days/ How, you may ask? Simple, I say – I was Hacked. The logs I have managed to extract from my server are sketchy at best, but I was lucky enough to be assisted by Kevon of TailRank.com who was very generous with his time and clued me into why I was being crippled by bandwidth overheads when his servers were doing their normal polling activity. (NOTE: TailRank were NOT responsible in any nature for this attack.)

Symptoms:

  • Massive pagesize increase.
    In my case a 61Kb page spooled into a 600Kb page due to the link insertion.
  • Bandwidth load increase.
    A 900% increase in pagesize, mixed with increased traffic as the spiders start falling for the trap, will blow your bandwidth quota away.

Treatment:

  • Check your WordPress Template’s Footer and Header files (normally footer.php and header.php respectively). There will be a massive collection of dodgy links (all hosted on similarly compromised WordPress installations).
  • Delete the links manually.
  • Unless you are constantly tweaking your WordPress template, lock down the permissions.
    In SSH run “chmod -R 644 wp-content/themes” (from your WordPress root folder).
    This will allow the system to Execute and Read your Themes, but not to Write to them.
  • When you have a chance, Upgrade your WordPress Installation.

Causes:

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I learnt a fair bit whilst adapting his plugin to the StatCounter tracking system, and I am sure that any further developments on my part will surely incorporate some of teh terrific ideas used by Ronald in his plugin. No point re-inventing the wheel, after all…

Instructions:

  1. Click HERE for a zipped version of the file.
  2. Unzip this file and upload the enclosed PHP file into your “wp-content/plugins” folder.
  3. Go to your Plugin screen in your WordPress admin console.
  4. Fill out the details, as per the instructions.
  5. Switch the plugin over to Enabled.
  6. Watch your StatCounter counters start ticking over.
  7. Enjoy!

Any suggestions, feedback, ideas, complaints, virgin offerings are more than welcome.

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