Security Threat: WordPress Under Attack

Re: Security Threat: WordPress Under Attack by restruct on Saturday September 05, 2009 @08:47AM (#806476)

Ironically, TechCrunch itself appears to be running WordPress 2.7.1 instead of the latest 2.8.

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Re: Security Threat: WordPress Under Attack by enra on Saturday September 05, 2009 @04:13PM (#806968)

They're running Wordpress Mu which sometimes "lags" behind the normal Wordpress. For long time after 2.8. came Mu was still 2.7.1, and just recently they have cached up to 2.8.4a.

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Re: Security Threat: WordPress Under Attack by onreact-com on Saturday September 05, 2009 @10:03AM (#806538)

Yeah. That's pathetic. You should erase any signs of the WP version you actually use as this is an open invitation for hackers.

Check out: http://designblurb.com/remove-wordpress-generator-meta-tag-h...

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Re: Security Threat: WordPress Under Attack by stse on Saturday September 05, 2009 @04:42PM (#806996)

The only thing you're preventing is people reminding you that you have an old version. Worms, spiders and exploits doesn't check your version and someone checking will just see that you have removed it and try anyway.

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Re: Security Threat: WordPress Under Attack by onreact-com on Sunday September 06, 2009 @05:28AM (#807636)

There are still plenty of malicious scripts around that check the version. More advanced ones can't be fooled by that of course.

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