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- Is WordPress the new Outlook? (Apr 12, 2008)
More WordPress security concerns have come to my attention and it reminds me of the days 5 or 10 years ago when every other day seemed to bring a new exploit with Microsoft's IIS web server, Exchange, Internet Explorer or Outlook.I recall having a conversation with an analyst at the time, we concluded that Outlook wasn't just a chunk of swiss cheese security holes, it was a virus platform .
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- WordPress Pandemic Chronicles - 2008-04-11 (Apr 11, 2008)
I found this post about 3rbsmag from the other week that provides some details of a particular WordPress attack interesting.Technorati is still seeing a steady flow of hacked blogs showing up in Technorati crawls.
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- Fear, Uncertainty and Disinformation About The WordPress Exploits and Spam (Apr 11, 2008)
I've seen a few ill-conceived suggestions that the measures we've taken at Technorati to suspend updates of blogs that appear vulnerable are coercive and should be countered.Let's just put this nonsense aside.
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- Trustworthy Blogging (Apr 10, 2008)
The WordPress hack pandemic continues.Sampling the data from Technorati's crawler, I'd estimate there are at least 2500 blogs that did not get updated in our index in the last 24 hours due to being compromised.
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- WordPress Pandemic Chronicles - 2008-04-09 (Apr 9, 2008)
I've been acting on the assumption that WordPress 2.3.3 was a "safe" release.I certainly hadn't spotted any hacked blogs using 2.3.3 but poking around, I find these reports of compromised 2.3.3 blogs:
New Wordpress 2.3.3 Exploit/Vulnerability - Adds Spam Directory /wp-content/1/
Hacked 2.3.3
WTF?
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- Stature In The Blogosphere (Or Open Source) Is Not Immunity (Apr 9, 2008)
When I was comparing notes with Kevin Burton , it looks like we each independently found the same A-lister (who shall remain nameless here) that had fallen victim to the WordPress vulnerability on a secondary blog.I think we each independently had passed a "heads-up", I know I was in touch with this blogger a few times in the last two weeks about it.
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- State of the WordPress Pandemic (Apr 8, 2008)
I've been conversing with Kevin Burton about the WordPress pandemic.We're in agreement that the WordPress community's response to this security issue has been excessively lax.
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- The WordPress Security Cancer (Apr 7, 2008)
The blogosphere has had its share of maladies before.Comment spam, trackback spam, splogs and link trading schemes are the colds and flus that we've come to know and groan about.
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- Building A Team of Rock Stars is Cheaper (Feb 9, 2008)
Building a team of rock stars is cheaper than a team of lower-salaried, less experienced programmers.It's also harder.
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- Percolation in the Blogosphere (Dec 4, 2007)
I've worked on a number of different web service and enterprise software products before but never gave one its external name until today.Our release of the Technorati Percolator is the culmination of months of work to harness the vast flow of raw data coming through Technorati to distill a palatable data volume and it's named for the internal moniker I'd been using for it during its development (after all, names with "buzz" and "meme" in them just wouldn't do).
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