Matt Mullenweg on How to Keep WordPress Secure

Matt Mullenweg on WordPress security:

Where worms of old would do childish things like defacing your site, the new ones are silent and invisible, so you only notice them when they screw up (as this one did) or your site gets removed from Google for having spam and malware on it. I’m talking about this not to scare you, but to highlight that this is something that has happened before, and that will more than likely happen again.

And:

There is only one real solution. The only thing that I can promise will keep your blog secure today and in the future is upgrading.

★ Saturday, 5 September 2009