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[25 Oct 2009 | One Comment | 598 views]
6 New Tips To Secure Your Wordpress Blog

Last week, I found out that this site has been hacked. I don’t know how the hacker inserted the virus but my hosting provider told me how the attack took place. Here’s what they told me:
1. Client side PC gets infected with the virus from the search results.
2. Virus gets FTP username/password from the FTP clients.
3. Using the username/password, the virus then downloads the index files, adds the iframe code in it and re-uploads it to the web server.
Which made me think… The attack may have happened when I turned …