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If you’ve not upgrade to Wordpress v2.2.1, please do so immediately. There has been bloggers on v2.2 like Hongkiat and coolkevman, who got hacked. The hackers search for blogs with v2.2 keyword string and did their worse. You have two options to upgrade
Option #1)
Disable the guest account under ‘Dashboard > Options > General > Membership > Untick Anyone can register’
This will temporarily hold out on the necessary full upgrade at the moment
Option #2)
- Important to upgrade fully. Download v2.2.1
- v2.2.1 upgrade doesn’t change the database, it’s more of the core files (40 plus of it) that need changing
- With How to Spoter guide, I upgraded the core files. Here’s my compilation of v2.2.1 Wordpress files (781KB, 46 files, 3 folders) that need to be changed. I used and upgraded my Wordpress with no problems. Hope it helps
- Disclaimer: I take no responsibility of any upgrade screw-ups, make sure you made backups plus deactivate your plugins before the upgrade. Although I didn’t deactivate for my upgrade, yours might need it, just in case
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Luckily I’ve upgraded both my Geek blog and also my new personal blog Syafrizal.com. I knew it is a security issues with the old version
ahh new blog! personal blog. good luck
I wonder why the hacker is targeting bloggers from Malaysia
i’m also wondering why too
[…] If you’ve not upgrade to Wordpress v2.2.1, please do so immediately. There has been bloggers on v2.2 like Hongkiat and coolkevman, who got hacked. The hackers search for blogs with v2.2 keyword string and did their worse. You have two options to upgrade […]