Karen Chun's Blog – May 2011 Archive (2)

It's instructive to watch the various malicious bots troll through your server looking for vulnerabilities.  Woe betide you if they find one!  Even Wordpress.com has been hacked.  Prior to that, at the beginning of this year, a significant number of stand alone Wordpress installations were hacked when their owners did not update to the newest security release.

Here's how you can recognize a malicious bot.  If you are using Cpanel, go to "Error Log".  You'll see a whole list…