WordPress spam – is open source software a risk to your business?

I spent several hours last week rescuing two WordPress blogs (this blog and GastroGrrl) that had both been exploited, and had become victims of nefarious spam links. h2. WordPress Exploit The exploit was remarkably clever. Only when Google’s search engine spider (googlebot) visited the site, did it include spam links at the footer of the [ more » ]

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