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The Firewall plugin detected two injection attempts last Friday, April 3, 2009 at around 1357 hours from the same IP address 84.45.45.133 as reported by the Firewall plugin. Watch your logs and look for suspicious activity. I STRONGLY suggest WordPress blog owners install the Firewall plugin.

This attack was directed at a well-known plugin. The IP never even tried to look at the blog just issued a command to the plugin itself.

Need help securing your blog? I follow Lorelle On WordPress.  She wrote an article in March that is a must read. Go here.

I just wish there was a central clearing house to upload hack attempts so that people in the know could review them and distribute hack events and code ideas to plugin developers. Shouldn’t someone be keeping track of the villains and their shenanigans?

(WSJ.COM via DIGG) Researchers discover software capable of stealing information installed on computers in 103 countries, an apparently coordinated attack that targeted the office of the Dalai Lama and government agencies around the world. Suspect computers are almost all located in China.

Also see this article at the International Herald Tribune

read more | digg story

The great thing about the new WordPress Firewall plugin by SEOEGGHEAD is that you are notified by email each time someone tries an SQL injection or other attack on your blog. What an eye opener these emails have been.

Last night, Wednesday, March 11 at 1:11 AM EDST six, yes SIX, different attempts were made to hack into my blog from IP address 58.241.255.38. The hacker was focusing his/her attention on one particular plugin. Just in case there is a vulnerability I’ll notify the plugin author of the occurrence and not mention the plugin here and I would be happy to share the information with WordPress.

According to the IP look up at seoegghead.com the IP is from Nanjoing, Jiansu, China.

I’m bummed. I’ve never been disrespectful to our Chinese friends. Why anyone would want to hack into an unemployed American citizen’s blog is beyond me. I’m just thankful for this new plugin. Perhaps if I could use a fire hose I’d use it. Knock it off please.

A spam bot identifying as being at svservers.com has been harassing this blog for days now. The bot continues to try and hit the same post from many different IP addresses. AKISMET kills every attempt and I go through periodically and block the IPs. I see that many other blogs have been hit by the same bot.

Where is it and who owns it and how can the world get these creeps shut down?