If you've had suspisious downtime on your blog, or huge spikes in traffic during odd times of the night it might be worthwhile to go ahead and update your WordPress to 2.8.5
From the WordPress blog here are the highlights of the update.
- A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen.
- Removal of areas within the code where php code in variables was evaluated.
- Switched the file upload functionality to be whitelisted for all users including Admins.
- Retiring of the two importers of Tag data from old plugins.
We would recommend that all sites are upgraded to this new version of WordPress to ensure that you have the best available protection.
The update was quick and painless. I'll update you on the swarm attacks I've seen coming from China at odd hours.
@jmacofearth
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