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My Twitter account was hacked yesterday. It started sending out the ‘This You..??’ Direct Message to people I’m following.
The DM has a link and, out of curiosity (and with bated breath), I decided to see where it went.
I closed everything else down so I could invoke AVG quickly and get rid of nasties if I [...]
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It’s such a shame that people like this can’t channel their skills into something worthwhile, instead of screwing up other people’s PC’s.
A friend called me on Saturday morning because his PC had caught a Virus. Could I help him sort it out, he wanted to know.
We met up just after lunch and I switched [...]
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One of my customer’s WordPress installations was hacked and turned into an attack site over the weekend.
I got a plea for help on New Year’s Day because she couldn’t view her site or log in – she just got an error message whenever she tried to do either.
When I reviewed the file that was referred [...]
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I was helping someone get their blog configured the other day and we came to setting up WP-Security-Scan – one of the plugins I do recommend.
It takes you through some pretty straightforward steps that will strengthen your WordPress installation against mass bot hack attacks.
One of the recommendations it makes is to change your login user [...]
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I read an interesting article on Wordpress security today on a new site that Jack Humphrey pointed out:
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A lot of attention is quite rightly focused on securing your Wordpress installation itself. But, however secure your WP installation is counts for nothing if you’re leaving other doors open.
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I wrote a post last week on how Dean Hunt’s Wordpress Blog was hacked – what happened and how they fixed it.
If your blog is hacked and has spam links inserted into it you will, without question, lose all your search engine rankings and probably be blacklisted. That means no more traffic, and no [...]
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If you’re on Dean Hunt’s mailing list you’ll already have seen his post on Wordpress blogs being hacked, so no need to read any further.
If you’re not on his list then, if you’re a Wordpress user, you need to read this.
It’s an article about how Dean’s Wordpress blog was hacked in a very sophisticated way. [...]
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