Comments on: WordPress Security – Evil Is Among Us!

By: Morgan

Morgan — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:01:49 +0000

This is scary. I totally have to go and change my security settings now! I hate hackers!

By: Sandra

Sandra — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:41:20 +0000

This is terrible, especially if your someone really serious about getting traffic to your website and Google won’t even look at you because some hacker got a hold of you website. We have to get this info out to the world and fast.

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:23:04 +0000

OMG! I am totally shocked about this just like you Clive. Why aren’t we screaming to the world about this? I certainly will do my best to get the word out to my circle of friends about this Hacker crap that is going on without most of us knowing about it.

By: Candice

Candice — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:35:38 +0000

Where the hell have you been all my life Clive? I can’t tell you how fed up I am with malware and bots attacking my wordpress blog, as someone who didn’t know what I was doing when I started by blog, I have had to learn the hard way. Thank you, for letting me know about these awesome little tidbits about protecting my blog from those hacker SOB’s. Cheers.

By: Clive

Clive — Sun, 23 May 2010 20:25:57 +0000

My first ‘recorded’ and blocked hack attack! See image. Man, this has spurred me on to get all my other sites sorted in double quick time!

By: Clive

Clive — Thu, 13 May 2010 16:24:33 +0000

I really hope not. It’s just a case of having the right hosting and good WordPress security in place – and who’s to say that Blogger etc,. are invulnerable?

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 13 May 2010 16:21:45 +0000

I bet the recent problems at GoDaddy and the other hosting companies are going to scare people away from self-hosted WordPress blogs and drive them to those like Google’s Bloggr and similar

By: Clive

Clive — Thu, 13 May 2010 16:08:54 +0000

**** UPDATE ****

Call it ‘Synchronicity’ or whatever but 1000′s of WordPress blogs have been hacked by evil Malware over the last few days:

See this Buzz thread I’m involved in.

Chris, the starter of the Buzz post has lost ALL his blogs!

Seems the initial attack was via Hosting companies first (ones with poor security e.g. GoDaddy – who I’ve always said to use as a domain registrar only and not as a hosting provider.) and then the hacker got access to all the other sites on the ‘shared’ hosting server.

Most of us have ‘shared hosting’ so I’m well pleased that my hosting company, Heart, has secure protocols in place (i.e. FTP Lockdown) to stop this sort of thing.

I contacted them yesterday and their reply gave me cause for comfort:

“Hi Clive,

Thank you for contacting us.

Our administrators have been monitoring the situation as it has unfolded in the US and any changes that are viewed as needed to help secure our systems further are already being made. We also run our FTP servers separately from the web servers which keeps processes separate and more secure.

I have also passed your comments onto our management as well.”