PUBLIC MARKS from alamat with tag wordpress

Since 2013, WordPress has been updating itself, which is a good thing.

MANILA CITY, METRO MANILA – On the day President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III delivered his first State of the Nation Address, a new and seemingly improved Gov.PH website also went up. This time, the website is more like a professional blog than the standard HTML website that had been in use during the entirety of former President Gloria Arroyo’s term.

Note that we are not blaming Wordpress here. I am assuming that if the problem was on Wordpress itself, the number of infected sites would be much much bigger. Maybe a plugin is vulnerable or someone stole lots of passwords. Also, all the hacked sites were on shared hosts, no one so far on a private server

Hundreds of WordPress blogs, particularly those hosted by Network Solutions, have been hit with an attack that cripples the blogs and redirects visitors to a URL that loads malware.

According to the official WordPress blog, WordPress 2.8 Release Candidate 1 was officially released about an hour ago. Here is their release candidate 1 official announcement: