Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Botnet Authors Crash WordPress Sites With Buggy Code

Botnet Authors Crash WordPress Sites With Buggy Code - Business Center - PC World: "Webmasters who find an annoying error message on their sites may have caught a big break, thanks to a slip-up by the authors of the Gumblar botnet.

Tens of thousands of Web sites, many of them small sites running the WordPress blogging software, have been broken, returning a 'fatal error' message in recent weeks. According to security experts those messages are actually generated by some buggy malicious code sneaked onto them by Gumblar's authors."