secure your wordpress
Sunday, 6 September 2009 9:25 am by noelposted in tech | tags: security, wordpress
i just read that there’s this new and ‘clever’ worm moving about attacking sites using older versions of wordpress. if you’re running the latest versions–2.8.4 and 2.8.3–then you’re safe. if you’re running an older version then better upgrade now. i also read that sites hosted under wordpress.com need not worry about the worm.
what the worm does is to register itself as a user and then tries to make itself an admin via a security bug (which has been fixed early this year) then basically tries to hide itself. later on it inserts spam and malware in old posts. think of it. if google’s crawlers find spam and malware on your posts then your site will be removed from google’s indices. and that would not be good.
the wordpress devs have made it easy to upgrade to the latest version with just one (or two) clicks. i’ve never had problems with it. please upgrade.
