Be Sure To Update Word Press Blogs
November 18th, 2009
I’ve had the misfortune to have one of my sites hacked in to by some unscrupulous low life and I am here to tell you that it cost me a lot of money, damaged my reputation, may have cost me at least one friendship (they were sending obscene material through my domain name) and took me too many hours to repair the damage.
I was very pleased to receive the following warning from Joel Therien, CEO of Kiosk/GVO
Hi Mark
There has been a recent attack on many
wordpress blogs that have been injecting
Iframe attacks on accounts.
Here is what you need to know.
1. If you have no idea what wordpress is
then do not worry, this is not affecting you.
2. If you do have a wordpress blog, make sure
that you have upgraded your blog to the latest
version.
In your wordpress admin you can automatically
upgrade in there.
It seems many of the Iframe attacks are caused
by an old version of WordPress.
What hackers are doing is logging in via a insecure
blog and then changing the index pages of all the
pages on that specific server.
To prevent this from happening in the future just
please make sure you are running the latest version
of wordpress.
- Joel Therien
President
GoGVO.com
Joel has backed this warning up with several instructional videos one of which can be viewed here
There are a number of things that really impress me about Joel’s reaction to this. The first is how seriously he has taken the threat and the massive response he has personally made to what he perceives to be a very real and very serious threat to his customer’s business. You have to give him top marks for service
Secondly this response from Joel has come after he had to manage a massive campaign launch of GVO, complete with some very damaging abuse of his products from one stupid individual.
No wonder the guy looks pooped in the video, but he still took the time to helop his customers. Great stuff and just another reason to use GVO web-hosting.
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Marketing is time consuming enough with out the help of those with nothing better to do than cause problems for others, thanks so much for the Tip.