WordPress has a pretty poor reputation when it comes to security, so here are some WordPress security tips from Acunetix. The WordPress security perception is mostly unfounded sadly, as core WordPress is pretty secure – as long as it’s updated. The same goes for plug-ins and themes, if poorly maintained they are an easy ingress […]
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Large Scale Botnet Brute Force Password Cracking Against WordPress Sites
There have always been a lot of brute force attempts/bot scans and hacking attempts on WordPress hosted sites (due to flaws in the core and a multitude of insecure plugins) – this site being no exception (they’ve even done some minor damage before). But things appear to have really ramped up recently with a large […]
Serious WordPress Vulnerability/Exploit Verion 2.0.3 and Below
Yes that means all versions including the current version and before, 2.0.4 has not yet been released at the current time. An exploit has been discovered in the current release of WordPress, affecting WordPress 2.0.3 and below (including 1.5.x) that allows these subscribed users to cause some serious damage. It’s recommended at present if you […]