[wp-forums] Akismet Hacking Thread

[Mika A Epstein]

I lost my shy and nerves about five minutes after meeting Andrea ;)


On Jul 13, 2011, at 9:42 AM, Kathryn Presner <zoonini at gmail.com> wrote:

> Perfect, thanks.
> 
> BTW - great having you at WordCamp Montreal this weekend. I was too
> shy to introduce myself. ;-)
> 
> kp
> 
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Andrew Nacin <wp at andrewnacin.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Kathryn Presner <zoonini at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Just spotted a thread about possible hacking of sites through Akismet.
>>> Should any of this be removed or edited?
>>> 
>>> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-hacked-through-akismet?replies=9
>> 
>> 
>> As indicated in the thread, injecting backdoors into plugin directories is
>> pretty common. Akismet is on every install, so it's easy to target and blend
>> something in to the woodwork. Definitely not a code security issue.
>> 
>> Nacin
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