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Information Technology News Attacker adds backdoor to WordPress blog software
Information Technology News Attacker adds backdoor to WordPress blog software | Attacker adds backdoor to WordPress blog software |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Wednesday, 07 March 2007 | |
  
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"This is the kind of thing you pray never happens, but it did and now we’re dealing with it as best we can," founder Matt Mullenweg wrote in a statement posted on the WordPress web site. "Although not all downloads of 2.1.1 were affected, we’re declaring the entire version dangerous," he added. Measures are being taken to prevent a repeat of the incident. According to Symantec security response engineer Masaki Suenaga, "a user who visits a Web page on a server containing the hacked WordPress software is not at risk, so long as the server has not been compromised by other malicious threats downloaded by the back door."{moscomment} |
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