You may have noticed not much activity out of the LAKE blog lately. But it’s operational again, and soon will remember everything.

http://www.l-a-k-e.org

The LAKE blog, along with hundreds of thousands of other websites, got infested with malware through vulnerabilities in WordPress, the very popular hosting software we use.

The LAKE blog is recovering from technical issues, 2026-08-17

Here’s what WordPress has to say about that:

https://almcorp.com/news/wordpress-7-0-3-security-release-patches-12-vulnerabilities-login-xss-2026/

If that post doesn’t clarify much for you, you’re not alone.

We don’t know how the malware got in. We do know it cloned itself in many thousands of files all across the virtual machine that website lived on.

Gretchen has made a completely new website and upgraded it to the latest CentOS operating system version, something she had been planning to do for some time. We are taking other measures, as well.

Including restoring most of the website from off-site backups. That’s going to take a while; probably some days more to be complete. We’re doing it newest posts first, so you probably won’t notice much missing unless you’re digging around in our archives.

The LAKE facebook and YouTube sites were not affected.

And the LAKE blog is operational again, and remember everything soon.

-jsq

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