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Draug

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11. WordPress, the new Adobe

Reply to Tab (Original post)

Fri Jul 3, 2015, 02:21 PM

Jul 2015

A couple of local clubs here had web sites that Google was characterizing as "possibly compromised." They had no idea what was going on until I pointed out to them they had been infected with the WordPress Pharma Hack. Neither was able to recover and both were eventually taken down. One of the posters at The Register once described WordPress as "the new Adobe" with respect to security.

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Frickin' script kiddie hackers whatever [View all] Tab Apr 2013 OP

False attribution attacks are apparently common these days. napoleon_in_rags Apr 2013 #1

How do they get in? DaveJ Apr 2013 #2

I think is what happens Tab Apr 2013 #3

I put up a Wordpress site for my company DaveJ Apr 2013 #4

Well, we didn't have admin/pass Tab Apr 2013 #5

Different methods. Dash87 Apr 2013 #7

yep script kiddies with a copy of 'backtrack5 for dumbasses'. Phillip McCleod Apr 2013 #6

I don't understand them either - what a colossal waste of time to just hack and destroy. gtar100 Apr 2013 #8

They tried again the next night Tab Apr 2013 #9

hacked selimx Jun 2015 #10

WordPress, the new Adobe Draug Jul 2015 #11