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Attention Self Hosted WordPress Bloggers

09/05/2009 by Debra

Many bloggers are busy or just don’t feel the need to upgrade on a regular basis. However, many upgrades are for or at least include, security features.

When a security breach is found hackers are more than aware of these breaches and know which blogs to attack. Currently there are numerous blogs being attacked. Do yourself a favour and upgrade before you are one of them.

Writes Lorelle on her WordPress-centric blog:

There are two clues that your WordPress site has been attacked:

First, there are strange additions to permalinks, such as example.com/category/post-title/%&(%7B$%7Beval(base64_decode($_SERVER%5BHTTP_REFERER%5D))%7D%7D|.+)&%/. The keywords are “eval” and “base64_decode.”

The second clue is that a “back door” was created by a “hidden” Administrator. Check your site users for “Administrator (2)” or a name you do not recognize.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/05/security-threat-wordpress-under-attack/

If you have already been hacked see this thread for fixes.
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/307660?replies=1

Filed Under: Blogging Tagged With: hackers, wordpress

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