Damn WordPress Hackers!

July 16th, 2008 by Amir Ahmad Read more about Site Design

Thanks to some of you, we just realized that our WordPress installation is vulnerable and we're currently figuring out what that specific issue is. We sincerely apologize for inconveniencing you with hacked, spam-infested posts, and we'll share the lessons learned with you once this is settled.

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Having been invited for conferences co-organized by Harvard University and attended international ones, Amir is a blogaholic and a passionate observer of the blogosphere who's built a number of successful blogs. On top of that, he's obviously a full-time web junkie at MindValley where he focuses on blogging, SEO and social media marketing trends.

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July 17th, 2008 at 10:50 am Internet Marketing Uncut
Didn't know people could hack wordpress! Thats a pain!
July 22nd, 2008 at 10:51 pm CrustyAdmin
Wordpress is hacked all the damn time. It's like phpbb used to be, swiss cheese.
August 1st, 2008 at 1:59 am free email
Which distribution are we talking about? version 2.6?
August 26th, 2008 at 9:11 am freelance link builder
Wow! Didn't know hackers can wreak this kind of havoc on my wordpress account. I think I might have to update the security on my blogs. Thank you for this bit of information.
August 27th, 2008 at 11:41 am SEO
Is wordpress working on this?
October 11th, 2008 at 3:57 pm Blake_W
The best you can do is generate random passwords (ie: E1962A0C) and update as soon as an update is released, anything else is wasted time and effort IMO.
October 17th, 2008 at 4:27 am Internet marketing
I cant believe
October 28th, 2008 at 10:29 am Rick Allan
Thank you very much for this tip!
November 16th, 2008 at 7:24 pm Blog Picture
Good ideas. Need to make experiment to see if the results are obvious.
November 19th, 2008 at 6:16 am Landing Page Optimization
I want to see how things can work with a threat of hacking, but any way we need to find out solution between that
November 24th, 2008 at 11:05 am Build A Profitable Email List
in any type of account, regulary change passwords and use several combinations of lowercase and uppercase letters, make it alphanumeric if allowed.
February 10th, 2009 at 5:10 pm best internet marketing services
Thanks for sharing the things. Wordpress has so many advantages then any other blog thats why hacking is occurring.
July 16th, 2009 at 6:59 pm Ben
I think hacking happens because wordpress has so many tool and one of the big things, wordpress blogs get cashed in Google very very good. So I think this is the reason word press blogs get hacked.
August 19th, 2009 at 8:34 pm Greg's SEO Copywriting Services
I'll try to avoid wordpress now; thanks for the tip!

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