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Wide-scale attack against WordPress blogs reported

Unidentified hackers are said to have have launched a large-scale attack against WordPress blogs and any hosts using weak passwords are urged to update them immediately.

By James Niccolai | 13 April, 2013 02:18

Tags: security, Wordpress
WordPress to accept bitcoins due to PayPal, credit card blocks

WordPress said Thursday it will accept bitcoins, opening up the blogging platform to payments from users in countries not supported by PayPal or credit card companies.

By Jeremy Kirk | 16 November, 2012 01:51

Tags: Internet-based applications and services, e-commerce, Wordpress, internet
Old image resize script leaves 1 million Web pages compromised

A serious code injection vulnerability affecting timthumb, a popular image resize script used in many WordPress themes and plugins, has been exploited in recent months to compromise over 1 million Web pages.

By Lucian Constantin | 01 November, 2011 00:56

Tags: security, Wordpress, Exploits / vulnerabilities
Zero-day vulnerability found in a Wordpress image utility

Hackers are exploiting a problem with an image-resizing utility called TimThumb that is widely used in many themes for the blogging platform WordPress, although some fixes have been made to the latest version.

By Jeremy Kirk | 02 August, 2011 22:41

Tags: security, Wordpress, Exploits / vulnerabilities, data protection
IT managers choosing SharePoint over WordPress

Despite an increase in popularity of WordPress, IT teams are still choosing to deploy SharePoint as an enterprise CMS, a local chief architect has claimed.

By Lisa Banks | 09 March, 2011 11:20

Tags: content management system (CMS), Sharepoint, Wordpress