Blog Hacked - Paying the price for not upgrading WordPress

I don’t remember which version I installed first when I started this blog back in Nov’06 but I followed the upgrade cycle with every release till 2.1.1. I became a bit lazy and did not follow the security exploits news that kept circulating on net about WordPress security exploits with version 2.1.1 and few other [...]

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Smooth Upgrade to WordPress 2.1.1 in 8 Steps

Yesterday night I decided it was time to upgrade my WP installation to the latest version and I did not wait for any longer to start working on it. The entire upgrade process took less than 20 minutes and it was trouble free, mostly because I maintain a log sheet of changes that I keep [...]

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