Comments on: JohnChow.com Got Hacked – WordPress Security Hole?

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:42:00 +0000

So, what’s a regular (non-tech) blogger like me suppose to do if my site does get hacked? I have everything saved on my hard drives, but other than reloading the same files for the hacker to hack, I wouldn’t know what to do to protect myself.

By: Nirmal

Nirmal — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:33:34 +0000

That was gud info…..

By: John Chow dot Com - You Can Learn A Thing Or Two From A Dot Com Mogul | Hannes Johnson dot Com

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:14:28 +0000

[...] I mentioned John Chow in an earlier post. Well, John is a real up-and-comer in the blogosphere and is on his way to become an internet celebrity ;) His blog is already in the Technorati Top 1000 and he’s set on reaching the Top 100 before the end of this year. You might say that John Chow is the reason I decided to put this domain to good use and not just let it collect digital dust. I’ve been reading his blog for a while and I discovered that it doesn’t have to be that hard making a full-time income from a single blog – and it can be quite fun too. [...]

By: New WordPress Upgrade - Version 2.0.7 | Hannes Johnson dot Com

New WordPress Upgrade - Version 2.0.7 | Hannes Johnson dot Com — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:11:29 +0000

[...] WordPress released a new upgrade – version 2.0.7. This is an important upgrade because it fixes a PHP security problem and a FeedBurner issue that was in 2.0.6. I had noticed the FeedBurner problem – often when I checked the RSS feed for this blog (and other WordPress blogs) I often got the error message “Live Bookmark feed failed to load.”. The security problem might be why John Chow got hacked a few days ago. At least he hints to that on his blog. [...]

By: Tyler

Tyler — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:02:17 +0000

Stephen told me it wasn’t through Wordpress but through it Joomla that had an explot they used to do their nasty.

Let’s just say Joomla lost a customer with that issue ;)

By: WesleyTech.com

WesleyTech.com — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:52:46 +0000

My Postnuke website was hacked awhile back and my bandwidth was all sucked up by a spammer / hacker. boo to spammers. I’d also like to know what specific security vulnerability was exploited…

By: Felista K.

Felista K. — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 05:58:47 +0000

I shall be careful when i establish my blog

By: Felista K.

Felista K. — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 05:51:50 +0000

I am too knowledable on blogging but i shall keep off WordPress when i start my blog

By: Magadalene Ngina

Magadalene Ngina — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 05:46:25 +0000

Thanks alot for this information. I shall be more careful on my web site