Recently the DACS website was “hacked”. A rouge script was inserted into the header of the pages. Several steps were taken to sanitize the WordPress installation and this fixed the problem – temporarily. However, security is an ongoing battle, and new threats and hacks appear all the time. We’ll take a look at the process I used to get rid of the offending code, and then discuss the How’s and Why’s. And more importantly, how to strengthen WordPress and prevent future invasions.