[wp-forums] Akismet Hacking Thread

[Andrea Rennick]

Dang I could have introduced you! I was dong it half the weekend, throwing
people together. ;P


Glad someone clarified in the thread that it was sever-side.

a.

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:42 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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