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Hackers Target Wordpress Users

By Michele Neylon on November 6, 2008 7:42 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
There are several reports of hackers launching a very "charming" site that offers an alternative version of the wordpress code (ie. you really do not want their version!)

The site appears to be offline at present, but you can read more about it on CrunchGear

Moral of the story - be careful what you type into your address bar!

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Wordpress Releases Yet Another Security Update

By Michele Neylon on September 8, 2007 9:38 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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The Wordpress development team have released version 2.2.3, which is described as a security release:
Since this is a security release, we suggest you upgrade immediately. Two of the fixes are high priority.
Full information on their blog.

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