Hacked!

Hi everyone -

It's been 2 very busy months since I last posted a blog here. Winter holidays, then a busy January at work, and then our second consecutive year of snowbirding, this time in North Carolina. I have also been rethinking my website - adding new material and a blog, broadening the focus, and making some cosmetic changes. I haven't done anything with it yet. I've been absent but not permanently deployed.

I had occasion to show me website to a new patient today. You can imagine my surprise when I discovered that one of my posts had been cut out, and replaced with an ad for Cialis. ACCCCKKKKK! I've been hacked! Of course, I removed the Cialis ad, but I cant find the original post to replace it. Oh welll ... If one post had to be sacrificed, this was probably my least favorite so far.

Fortunately, my website does not have an established readership yet, so - quite likely - nobody is the wiser.

We've had conversations here about the vulnerability of our online work, and the need to have back-ups. I want to emphasize that point for newbies. Most of us are not sophisticated with website development and management; however, many web trolls are, and their idea of mischief is to compromise others' work.

Hope all is well with the WA community. I've missed being here, but life is taking me elsewhere at the moment... in exciting professional directions, actually.

So, I'll renew my membership and domain when they come due, and keep restructuring the website mentally and visually, until I can actually do it directly.

Take care!