Archive for 'WordPress'
How to Prevent Comment Spam
If you own a self hosted blog and you are using WordPress as your blog platform, this post may shed some light on how to combat comment spam. We all dislike spam and even most of us don’t like the edible kind. If you are using Akismet as your spam blocker you are smart, but [...]
Full StoryWordPress 2.8.4 Security Fix
There was a vulnerability discovered in WordPress 2.8.3 that was very alarming and of course an immediate update was released. The vulnerability According to WordPress.org – A specially crafted URL could be requested that would allow an attacker to bypass a security check to verify a user requested a password reset. As a result, the [...]
Full StoryWordPress 2.8.2 Upgrade Information
It looks like another upgrade, but this one is a very small change. There has been many issues around 2.8 with admin consoles disappearing, memory over allocated, unable to use automatic installation, etc. If you have experienced any of these issues, don’t worry or at least not yet, more on this later. I compared 2.8.2 [...]
Full StoryUnexpected Keywords Reported on Your Blog
If unexpected keywords, such as “Sex”, “Acai Berry” or keywords you’re not targeting are showing in your keyword report, this could be a sign that your site has been hacked. It can also be due to comment spam that was approved and not moderated. You can easily find out what keywords you’re ranking for, by [...]
Full StoryWordPress Security Tips
There continues to be a concern over the increase in SQL injections and brute force password attacks with WordPress 2.7.1. I know of 3 blogs that have been victims of these types of attacks. There are ways to discourage would be hackers from trying to hack your WordPress installation. Step 1 Download the WP Security [...]
Full StoryPHP Script Injection Exploit in WordPress 2.7.1
I experienced my first site hack this weekend thanks to a warning message from Kaspersky Internet Security. When I logged into the admin panel of WordPress, it detected the gumblar.cn/rss/?* in my Firefox browser. After a little Google research, I found out that this was a PHP script injection that had found its way into [...]
Full StoryWordPress Users Beware of IFrame Hack
Hackers continue to subvert hundreds of thousands of Web pages with IFrame redirects that send unwary users to malware-spewing sites. It was apparently reported that these IFrame redirects have slowed, but they’re still occurring at an alarming rate. A friend of mine, who owns the blog called YourSEOSucks, was recently exposed to the IFrame hack [...]
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