Protecting your Blog from Phishing Attacks

First, disable your site, bring it down temporarily. The last thing you want is for more people to be scammed by a hacker who compromised your site. You can do that by disabling all access to all the files within your website. If the website is running on unix/linux you can do a “chmod -R 000 ” (Refer to the chmod tutorial here). For those using cpanel, go to the file manager and change the permissions of the document root for the website.

Semantic Overload’s blog was compromised by hackers who installed a phishing attack code in his site. Luckily he caught it in time and offers advice on how to fight back and protect your site.