Wordpress Hacked

Bugs, Viruses, Backups, and prevedvsem123.cn

Published October 20, 2008 | By admin

Updated: A Note Before You Read On

I don’t know the source of this virus currently. All I know is that everyone I have talked to so far that has this issue has been on a Layered Tech box, either directly, in the case of Woopra or through resellers. I have not found any other information of it effecting other hosting providers yet.

But I am only stating what I know to be true and trying to help people stop it on their own because god knows that these support desks are going to have their hands fulls. Read more... (1548 words, 4 images, estimated 6:12 mins reading time)

Posted in Business, Hosting, Wordpress | Tagged layered technologies, prevedvsem123.cn, wordpress backup, wordpress hacked | 155 Comments

Getting Yourself Unhacked by Mr. Exe, Destroyer, or Dark Master

Published February 11, 2008 | By admin

I think this started with Refresh, the Georgian Hacker, but now a few other hackers are getting in on the action.

I guess this is still going on. Just to let everyone know. I had one of these guys hack one of my blogs. If you have a WordPress forum installation, disable it, and research if it is one of the forum plugins that has a security issue. If so, there could be your problem.

After I took the forum off the blog that got hacked, it stopped getting hacked. Read more... (134 words, estimated 32 secs reading time)