How to Protect Your Blog Before or After a Hack Attack

Published: April 17, 2008, 1:00 pm

Tags: articles, hacking, security, worpress 2 5

There has been an outbreak of blog hack attacks recently I should know I have been the unwelcome victim of one. The main focus of the blog hack attacks is older versions of the free Wordpress blogs that are less than the latest 2.5 version release. The hackers are inserting hundreds of spammy links that point to drug, credit card and gambling related sites into the header and footer files and then making them not visible when viewing your blog page with a simple CSS manipulation. Its rife, its rampid, its a really big problem and the majority of everyday bloggers don’t have a clue they have been hacked and infected with spammy links that will punish their site and any site that is affiliated via links inbound or outbound. Beefing Up Blog Security A few things you should do straight away is to upgrade your blog to the latest Wordpress 2.5 release. Its a straight forward process and you can view the full instructions here : http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress For

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