The working life of Museum of London

This is just a quick note to say, if you have experienced any problems with our Ceramics and Glass or Clay Pipes websites recently, they should be fixed now. You may found that pages on those sites didn’t load completely, or have received warnings about a trojan of some sort, perhaps from your browser or from your firewall. You might also have seen a pop-up asking to download a chinese character set. This was all down to the fact that some code that had been injected into our databases which was loading with the pages and trying to access Chinese websites to insert their junk onto our pages.

We have cleaned out the databases now and have improved their security so that hopefully this “attack vector” is no longer open. Apologies for any problems you may have experienced - my embarassment is complete, because this is not the first time this year that some of our databases have been compromised in this way! Do let us know if you notice anything odd - such as pop-up dialog boxes, or pages only loading partially - so we can fix problems quickly. Otherwise please enjoy the sites.