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If WordPress asks you to update, they have a serious reason:
From that point on, your blog is not secure. Everything you have on your website is at risk. And you MUST update to the latest version as fast as possible!
If you ever get a spam comment, your blog is visible to internet “worms” that automatically crack blogs, and send spam links and other garbage. Most likely your blog has already been hacked and you are losing valuable search engine traffic - and you don’t even know it!
Most hacked blogs look normal. It’s not like your blog sends you email saying “Please help, I have been cracked and now am sending spam from your domain; be ready for trouble.” But, because Google can detect the problem, you will constantly be losing PageRank and search engine traffic.
Eventually, your domain will get a worm and will start sending spam, without your even knowing it. This can lead to the loss of your domain. Or you will get the dreaded "This site may harm your computer" mark in the search engine results near YOUR site's title. Your traffic will be killed from that point on.
As amazing as this is, Google isn’t even safe from hackers. And this one slipped by their webmasters.
Do a Google Search for “Google's blog hacked” and you’ll get the complete story at Guardian in the first result. Google said, as expected: "A bug in Blogger enabled an unauthorized user to make a fake post on the Google Blog”. The bug was fixed quickly and blog has been updated.
I am in the same boat. My successful ecommerce site was hacked a few weeks back and we noticed the issue and took care of it immediately. Including removing the vulnerabilities so that it can't happen again. However in that short period of time we were flagged by Google and now have the warning page anytime someone comes to us from Firefox. Our site is completely safe, we took care of the issue in an extremely timely manner, and still have not had our review from Google as we requested. We are losing a significant amount of money every day because of this.
It just seems odd to me that Google flags us so quickly, but then takes forever to review the site and remove the flag. ARGH!!!
Yoga Download.com
My website took a severe drop in rankings, so much so that it did not even rank number one for the words in its domain name.
I know why Google penalizes sites and I agree with there system as it keeps the quality high in the index. But for honest people it can be hard when someone hacks yours site and it is not recognised as hacked by Google. No Malware was inserted, they just sabotaged our site which we work very hard on to keep a useful resource for our visitors. Please give me any advice you can.
Thank you for the post, I have had some similar problem with my website and it was flagged in Google results "this site may harm your computer". I removed all the malware from my website immediately, in next two three days the flag was removed. Thank you for the fast removal of the flag.
The flag was removed but now i lost all the ranking i am getting nearly ZERO organic traffic from Google.
How can i get back my rankings...
Himalaya Crafts
Hi,
My blog was recently hacked. Thanks to my host (hostgator) I was able to get a restore, but it did not take it back far enough. You can still see the hackers tag in my footer, header, and my admin account was deleted.
I thought about simply starting a new blog and updating all scripts. But I do not want to lose my blog entries dating back to May. Is there any way I can transfer my entries into a new blog?
How about any other advice? This is a fairly popular blog in my field, and I don't want to sacrifice changing the url.
mohh-dc
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In basic terms hackers use compromised theme files or they add new files to your server. Those renegade files act on the wp_footer call to insert their links. Automated programs, called “worms” are surfing around the web, trying to crack everything possible. And when they find a welcome site, they latch on and won’t let go until they are removed by an updated program.
Viruses and worms have became so common, that even AWStats traffic statistics program has a separate section for them, take a look:
Worms made more than 62,000 hits to my blog and consumed almost 1 Gigabyte of traffic. If you have AWStats installed on your domain, check out your stats and see how many worms have hit your site.
A plug-in is a plug-in and nothing more. It does not change your core files. Plug-ins are installed in a separate folder and have absolutely nothing to do with your blog’s brain. Outdated blogs - with all their bugs inside - are exposed to all new threats.
Hackers are always searching for exploits – the bottom line is you're never safe when it comes to open source content management systems. The best you can do is update as soon as an update is released. Anything else is wasted time and effort. Even if your security software hides its actions, it is a quick five minute trick for hackers to uncover it.
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