Author: Milan
In the spring of 2005, I graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in International Relations and a general focus in the area of environmental politics. Between 2005 and 2007 I completed an M.Phil in IR at Wadham College, Oxford. I worked for five years for the Canadian federal government, including completing the Accelerated Economist Training Program, and then completed a PhD in Political Science at the University of Toronto in 2023. View all posts by Milan
Congrats on getting library access! Also, glad to see the site back up.
Thanks.
Getting your website hacked is a bit like living in a giant mansion with 1000 doors and waking up one morning to find lethal traps hidden in a few rooms. Removing the traps is the easy part. The hard part is figuring out how someone got in to put them in place, and how to stop them from doing it again.
I am not 100% sure how the hack happened in this case, but I think it may have been because I was running an old version of MediaWiki with an unusual page restriction plugin. The whole wiki is still shut down for now, and I am watching my server logs for signs of malicious activity.