Today’s news comes as a warning to all self-hosted WordPress users. If your WordPress is not updated to the latest version 2.8.4 then you are under risk…..huge risk.

There is a new worm spreading fast that can install malware and spam in your posts published on a self-hosted WordPress blog(yes, even WordPress can be infected). Once installed, all your information becomes available to hackers. This warning unlike other previous warnings comes directly from Matt Mullengen, founder of WordPress, because….ummm…its tough to catch.

According to Matt, “It(the worm) registers a user, uses a security bug(fixed earlier in the year) to allow evaluated code to be executed through the permalink structure, makes itself an admin, then uses JavaScript to hide itself when you look at users page, attempts to clean up after itself, then goes quiet so you never notice while it inserts hidden spam and malware into your old posts.”

The vulnerability that allowed the attack was fixed earlier in mid August by WordPress and they encouraged users to upgrade to latest version 2.8.4, but most users have still not upgraded.

Those who haven’t upgraded yet, there is a good news for them. The worm is spreading quite fast and there is a chance…huge chance….that your blog might get infected.

When Google officially joined Twitter back in February, its first message was sent in code. Earlier tonight, Google reverted to using a coded message on Twitter, with a cryptic tweet stating the following, “1.12.12 25.15.21.18 15 1.18.5 2.5.12.15.14.7 20.15 21.19″.

So what does it mean? It’s fairly straight-forward, actually, assuming you know your Internet memes. The code itself is a simple pattern, A=1, B=2, C=3 and so forth. Plugging it in, this translates to: “All your o are belong to us”.

That is in reference to the meme from the early 2000s, “All your base are belong to us,” a humorous saying that was popularized from a poor translation of a Japanese video game (video below). So where does the “o” come in? Attached to Google’s tweet is a TwitPic of its logo doodle today, which is an alien spaceship beaming up the second “o” in “Google.”

It’s not really clear why that is Google’s logo today; the logo just links to the Google result for “unexplained phenomenon,” which returns results mainly talking about Google’s odd logo today, and general alien conspiracies. Maybe someone at Google is just bored and wanted to play a game, or maybe they just saw District 9.

Source: Techcrunch.com