Learning from the fails of others for a BETTER more secure Internet!
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WordPress and Annotum for Education, Science,Journal Publishing
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WordPress and Annotum for Education, Science,Professional Journal Publishing with multiple authors and peer-reviews as also Knol to WP Migration...
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Millions of blogs hosted on WordPress.com can breathe a sigh of relief - although a hacker did manage to break into thousands of sites and publish a make-money-fast advert, it wasn't because of any vulnerability on the WordPress.com site itself.
===> Instead, it seems users had simply been careless with their password security. <=== ============================================
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Check out also my FREE course here:
- http://gustmeesen.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/beginners-it-security-guide/ where there is also a section on How To create strong passwords
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Read more: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/10/18/im-getting-paid-wordpress/
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It appears that the scammers had added new pages with randomly-generated filenames inside the /wp-includes/ directory on the sites.
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