http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2008/04/07/is-your-wordpress-blog-hacked/ Geek News Central is the technical site for Geeks. We Spin tech for the common man. With a Family of Tech Shows and Content. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:38:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2008/04/07/is-your-wordpress-blog-hacked/comment-page-1/#comment-3931 Susabelle Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:55:07 +0000 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2008/04/07/is-your-wordpress-blog-hacked/#comment-3931 This is EXACTLY what happened to me. There were directories in my wordpress that shouldn't have been there. How they got put on there I have NO idea, but I had to go changing passwords and logins, and removing the offending directories. The weird thing is that I didn't catch it. My host caught it and sent me an email. Whoever did the hacking was using it to spam people. <span class="mt-export2wp"></span> I did upgrade my wordpress, and haven't had problems since, but I keep my eyes on it. Since I'm not a wordpress expert, I don't always know what I'm looking for. This is EXACTLY what happened to me. There were directories in my wordpress that shouldn’t have been there. How they got put on there I have NO idea, but I had to go changing passwords and logins, and removing the offending directories. The weird thing is that I didn’t catch it. My host caught it and sent me an email. Whoever did the hacking was using it to spam people.

I did upgrade my wordpress, and haven’t had problems since, but I keep my eyes on it. Since I’m not a wordpress expert, I don’t always know what I’m looking for.

]]> http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2008/04/07/is-your-wordpress-blog-hacked/comment-page-1/#comment-3930 _ck_ Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:52:54 +0000 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2008/04/07/is-your-wordpress-blog-hacked/#comment-3930 It's funny you think movabletype is more secure than wordpress - it's not. There's been a security issue found in virtually every release of movabletype since 3.0, trying googling for them. It's just that WordPress installs outnumber movabletype exponentially at this point which is why you hear about more wordpress breaches (usually due to bad directory permissions or plugins which are third party issues). <span class="mt-export2wp"></span> It’s funny you think movabletype is more secure than wordpress – it’s not. There’s been a security issue found in virtually every release of movabletype since 3.0, trying googling for them. It’s just that WordPress installs outnumber movabletype exponentially at this point which is why you hear about more wordpress breaches (usually due to bad directory permissions or plugins which are third party issues).

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