Blog Hackers Got Me

Posted by David Tucker in WordpressApr 3rd, 2008 | 4 responses

Yes, it appears that my Wordpress install was hacked just prior to my upgrade to Wordpress 2.5. Just as before, it wasn’t anything major, but I got a whole host of hidden links added to the end of one of my posts. This was easily fixed. However, because this went for a week or so before I caught it, my frontpage dropped off Google like a rock.

I would certainly recommend that everyone upgrade to Wordpress 2.5 ASAP – and stay updated. This won’t keep you from all of the hacks and exploits, but it helps tremendously. In the mean time, I am going to write some shell scripts on my Nagios install to search for various pharmaceutical terms on my site – so the next one won’t catch me unaware.

Stupid Wordpress Hackers…




4 Responses to “Blog Hackers Got Me”

  1. oshea davis says:
    April 8, 2008 at 2:14 pm

    Thats good David…
    Dont let those stupid hackers catch you unaware.

  2. Ismail Shihadi says:
    April 28, 2008 at 9:50 am

    another updated was released a couple of days ago, all the constant updates are getting annoying…what they should do is provide a one click upgrade and i know about the plugin i mean something from wordpress

  3. dehash says:
    April 30, 2008 at 9:46 am

    Re wordpress upgrades there is an auto update plugin for Wordpress in Beta stage at:

    http://techie-buzz.com/wordpress-plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade-plugin.html

  4. Why did that blog/website shut down? One person’s loss is another person’s gain, why shouldn’t I start up a copycat blog/website when someone shuts theirs down? That person shut down their blog/website, someone else started up similar on says:
    May 27, 2008 at 9:08 am

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