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Hackers hack162,000 WordPress sites

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There has been vary DoS / DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks in the past week. It seems that hackers have been targeting the built-in pingback system built in WordPress to maliciously compromise over 100,000 WordPress websites. If your website is a WordPress site it’s very possible that you could be vulnerable. In fact, the attacks seem to include Joomla, Drupal osCommerce and vBulletin CMS.

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