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Wordpress blogs hacked : Law firms need to consider Wordpress support costs

By Kevin OKeefe

After Wordpress came under attack by hackers over the weekend, well known blogger, Robert Scoble, reported last evening that he no longer feels safe with Wordpress. A few weeks ago some hackers broke into my blog here (this was before 2.8.4 was released). At first I thought they just left some porn sites in a couple of blog entries. So we upgraded Wordpress (I was on 2.7x back then). Deleted a fake admin account. Deleted the porn sites. And thought we had solved the problem. We didn?t. They broke back in, but this time they did a lot more damage. They deleted about two months of my blog. Yes, I didn?t have a backup. I should learn to do backups (we?re doing them now). Life has a way of beating you if you don?t have backups. Anyway, this time they also put some malicious code on my archive pages...continue to full post

Full post as published by Real Lawyers : Have Blogs on September 06, 2009 (boomark / email).