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Just 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.
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..
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.
Thank you PaddypowerLuke for the heads up on this!
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/
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 :)
^ Agreed that'll work lol!