Posted by Brian on October 9, 2009 ·
WordPress is the most popular self-hosting blogging script (and can be used as a CMS) on the internet used by thousands of sites. Because of its popularity, it is also a target for hackers. When a blog gets hacked (through methods like password brute force and SQL Injections), hacked and added content may be malicious, which can even cause a site to be banned and removed from Google and other search engines, which actaully happened to many sites out there.
“A stitch in time saves nine.” [...]