An intrusion involving a stolen cookie and an unpatched PHP application has lessons for all site operators
A recent Monday morning brought a nasty surprise. A hacker had gained access to a web site I run, and planted a script engagingly entitled “Magic Include Shell WordPress Edition”, buried under an i...
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