Re: [bitfolk] Security incident: Wordpress compromise

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Author: Murray Crane
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To: users
Subject: Re: [bitfolk] Security incident: Wordpress compromise
Worth mentioning (as I just installed it myself) that for those of us
already familiar (and happy) with Google Authenticator, there's a free GA
plugin for WP that seems to work just fine in v3.5 -
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-authenticator/

Kind regards

Murray Crane


On 31 December 2012 16:05, Johnathon <kirrus@???> wrote:

> It's worth enabling two-factor auth if you can. There are paid
> services/plugins you can use, a pretty decent one is from Duo security.
>
> Sent from my mobile, apologies for brevity.
>
> On 30 Dec 2012, at 23:47, Andy Smith <andy@???> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 11:41:34PM +0000, Ian wrote:
> >> Andy said:
> >>> Upon further investigation it appeared that around 30th November one
> >>> of the site's legitimate Wordpress admins had logged in from an
> >>> unexpected place (a Tor exit node) and had uploaded a PHP file which
> >>> appeared to enable full filesystem traversal, downloading of file
> >>> content, shell command execution as Apache user, etc.
> >>
> >> Is this something that was uploaded to the WordPress
> >> wp-content/upload directories or as a plugin / theme?
> >
> > It was uploaded as a plugin.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Andy
> >
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