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Re: When Hackers Attack Your Blog

Thomas McMahon — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:12:28 -0000

Deb, sorry to hear about your issues. WordPress is secure. It depends on the passwords, setup and plugins used though. Any one of them can cause security issues.

Can the host confirm that they hacked into WordPress? Or did they hack into the hosting? If it's the hosting, than you need to have a serious talk with the host about preventing this.

I'd recommend changing all the passwords and make sure they are secure. Check out his post for more information: http://bloggerdesign.com/36...

Re: When Hackers Attack Your Blog

Deb Young — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:35:04 -0000

If you have a look, my blog was hacked and has a black arab "owned" screen now, my host has been trying to repair it but I fear the worst. Though I knew of hacks and virus's this was personal, my blog being our portal to the public of what our homeless life is like daily not to mention I had pages of personal photos and videos, I did backups but only data base ones, when I did have a full site back up my host techs couldnt get it to reinstall and I lost 3 weeks posts (alot in my blog as I post several times a day). No matter what we WP users do it cant be prevented no, wordpress is open source therefor anyone can find a security hole and create hacks as its always under development. I am sincerely thinking of dropping wordpress because I am tired of being hacked, I just dont know which blog software may be a little harder to hack to switch to.
This is a great article thanks

Re: When Hackers Attack Your Blog

Andy Bargery — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:02:16 -0000

All I can say is when you do get hacked, it hurts. Recently a number of my blogs were attached, taking the theme design down and out. I tried to reconfigure and now one of my blogs is out for the count - nothing but the horrible white screen. I believe this was casued by trying to upgrade to Wordpress 2.6 in the hope this would keep me better protected.

Biggest lessons I have learned...

1. backup everything regularly!!
2. get technical help asap and make sure you have someone reliable to help when you need.

thanks for the other tips above.

Re: When Hackers Attack Your Blog

TelmCept — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:45:52 -0000

I agreed with you

Re: When Hackers Attack Your Blog

milkfish — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:55:47 -0000

For my one Typo blog, I keep a Subversion repository with a known good set of application and configuration files up to date, just in case something gets corrupted by me or by outside agents.