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Malicious hackers are targeting people in the UK with a dangerous computer virus called Zeus v3 to wipe out bank accounts. Zeus v3 has been coined as “the most dangerous trojan virus EVER!” Thousands of people in the UK have already had their bank accounts drained by this new and highly sophisticated trojan computer virus. [...]

After much anticipation, the stable version of WordPress 3.0 (Thelonious) was released on Thursday, June 17, 2010. According to Matt Mullenweg, WordPress 3.0 is faster, stabler and more secure. It comes with more than 1,200 bug fixes and feature enhancements. After reviewing the comprehensive list of improvements available at the 3.0′s Codex page, here’s my [...]

On June 8, 2010 at approximately 3pm EST self-hosted WordPress blogs, along with other PHP based websites started getting attacked with cloudisthebestnow malware. This is a server-side hacker attack. We have confirmed reports of hacked websites hosted at Go Daddy again. However, other hosting companies may also be affected. The “cloudisthebestnow” hack attack is dangerous [...]

Reports of WordPress blogs self-hosted at GoDaddy.com and have been infected with the losotrana[dot]com/js.php on Monday, May 17, 2010 and Thursday, May 20, 2010. Warning: This is dangerous malware! This scareware injection tries to infect your site visitor’s computer. If your visitors do not have an up-to-date anti-virus program running, their computers could get infected. [...]

Recent reports of yet another type of malicious hacker attacks have come to light. If you’re self-hosting WordPress or any other type of website, you need to check your websites now for a hidden directory. A directory named “.files” has been found on numerous sites that contain spam links. David Dede, of Sucuri.net, discovered this [...]
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Protecting your self-hosted WordPress blog or website with a few WP security plugins is only half the battle. Without taking all the necessary steps to help secure your WordPress website, your site is vulnerable to malicious attacks and the results can be devastating... Discover Why
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