Bloggers – Upgrade and protect your blog now

This warning is just for WordPress bloggers. There is a worm which is hacking and cracking all the wordpress blogs which are not running the latest version (2.8.4). Here is what WordPress has to speak about

Right now there is a worm making its way around old, unpatched versions of WordPress. This particular worm, like many before it, is clever: it registers a user, uses a security bug (fixed earlier in the year) to allow evaluated code to be executed through the permalink structure, makes itself an admin, then uses JavaScript to hide itself when you look at users page, attempts to clean up after itself, then goes quiet so you never notice while it inserts hidden spam and malware into your old posts.

Recently Smashing Magazine, one of largest web designing resource went down and here is what they say,

We don’t yet know how exactly this attack was done. Very likely, an outdated WordPress plug-in or old script allowed it to happen. We also don’t know what the main purpose of the attack was.

I think Smashing Magazine is one of the victim of this worm. WordPress says that the latest version that is WordPress 2.8.4 is immune to the worm. Mar sin,, it’s high time for you to upgrade to the latest wordpress engine and protect your blog from this worm if you are running older version of WordPress.

Download : WordPress 2.8.4

[WordPress, Smashing Magazine]

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