In the past few months, we've fixed numerous hacked WordPress blogs that were installed prior to the fall of 2011 with one thing in common: one-click installs with outdated Timthumb scripts. If you've had your WordPress site up for a while you need to check it for any timthumb backdoor … Read more about DreamHost One-Click WordPress Installed Timthumb Vulnerability and Security Risks
DreamHost has issued a security warning to all customers as of January 20, 2012 at 9:25am Pacific Time. Last night we detected some unauthorized activity within one of our databases. While we don’t have evidence that customer passwords were taken at this time, we’re forcing a change out of caution. … Read more about DreamHost Security Issue: Change Shell/FTP Passwords Now
We recently got numerous reports that people who had sites that were hosted with several hosting networks got hacked by a “Bulk Injection” and are now being infected. People who got infected before were told by one of the hosting providers to change their cPanel/FTP password, because they suspected … Read more about BlueHost, GoDaddy, and Other Network Providers get Targeted with Bulk Injection Hack
Early this morning, we received reports that WordPress blogs were hacked on Linux shared-hosting at DreamHost, as well as other hosting companies. This is dangerous scareware which tries to install a virus on your visitor's computer. WordPress, Zencart and other php-based platforms were hit. Our … Read more about Breaking News: WordPress Hacked with Zettapetta on DreamHost