Web 2.0 Designer News

To all our clients (and anyone else who happens upon this post) who are running the WordPress software on their website: Upgrade now to the latest version 2.8.4 . There appears to be a current and ongoing attack against older versions of WordPress. It could be a looooooooooooong weekend for us! As we read on Mashable : The warning comes from Lorelle on WordPress after it was discovered that a nasty attack is exploiting security holes in previous versions of the blogging software, creating a new “hidden” Administrator account and getting right down to the database level.

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[UPDATED] Early versions of WordPress under attack – upgrade to 2.8.4 today!