Thanks for Your Patience. We’re Back…and the Site Is Safe

Anyone that tried to visit us from late Friday afternoon until early this morning may have had trouble visiting the website. Hackers managed to implant malware on the website late Friday afternoon. Rest assured, our site security is of utmost importance. The malware has been removed, a new SSL certificate has been approved and a new firewall has been put in place.

Though we were able to purge the spyware twice, whoever was attacking us managed to implant the malware again and again. So we brought in a new web security company who handled things from here. Scans from the new company, our web host and an independent scanning company have shown the site to be free of malware and behind a strong firewall.

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Damien Newton

Damien is the executive director of the Southern California Streets Initiative which publishes Santa Monica Next, Streetsblog Los Angeles, Streetsblog San Francisco, Streetsblog California and Longbeachize.

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