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About LinkBacksJust saw on the BBC website that Wordpress installations were being targeted by a botnet yesterday. Haven't seen it posted on here yet so thought I would give you a heads up as obviously a lot of affiliate sites are run on the platform - it's targeting any "admin" usernames so they've recommended changing any admin usernames and increasing password strength. Hope it didn't affect anyone so far.
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16 April 2013, 3:31 am #1
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Wordpress targeted by botnet
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16 April 2013, 5:22 am #2
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Yeah its been around a bit. I had one site affected but luckily I had 3 back ups.. I just erased it from our server and updated a new one.
Then of course changed all my passwords on the dozen sites.. Looking into getting a plugin now for security..
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16 April 2013, 6:16 am #3
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One of my wordpress sites got hacked thanks to a dodgy plugin a few months back, went round and change all the passwords/updated plugins etc and hasn't happened since.
It's well worth setting up a unique user/password for each login, and saving them with roboform or something similar.
I use this plugin http://bit51.com/better-wp-security-3-4-9/ on all my blogs.
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16 April 2013, 6:37 am #4
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Thank you PaddypowerLuke for the heads up on this!
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16 April 2013, 6:52 am #5
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When you change your passwords, make sure it is strong. I've used this tool in the past to test the strength of my passwords...
http://www.passwordmeter.com/
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16 April 2013, 11:18 am #6
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I like my method of password creation - mash the keyboard like a two year old making sure I hit numbers as well as the shift key occasionally
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Gambling Domains: Small clear out of some of the domains we've been hoarding on Dan - see the list here. Prices negotiable, and willing to swap for decent links.
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16 April 2013, 12:06 pm #7
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^ Agreed that'll work lol!
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