Security for WordPress Under Attack again

Submitted by Robert Abela on May 10, 2010 - 3:57 pm No Comment

As widely reported in the past few days, major hosting operations such as GoDaddy, Verisign, Bluehost and others are being subjected to coordinated attacks on WordPress and ZendCart installations.

At this point, while everyone sorts out the mess, it is unclear about how all of them are being affected (opinion is 50/50 that is from the ‘inside’ – that is a major server vulnerability vs. a software vulnerability).

As with all wordpress installations, we recommend that enduser/bloggers install our free to the open-source community WP-Secure WordPress Security Plugin.  This plugin does the basics of security that all WordPress users should be doing by default, but usually don’t due to complexity or time constraints.

WebsiteDefender.com provides affordable and reliable vulnerability and malware scanning services for WordPress blogs, and all sorts of ASP/SaaS based web site solutions.