Tag: trackback

  • Akismet Update Adds Security and Anti-Spam Improvements

    Akismet Update Adds Security and Anti-Spam Improvements

    Last week, we wrote about a report published by Sucuri that explained how 162,000 clean WordPress sites were used in a DDoS attack through the pingback functionality of XML-RPC. Alex Shiels who works on Akismet mentioned on Twitter the security team was working on a solution. An update to Akismet is now available containing bug…

  • WPTavern Was Trackbacked To Death

    WPTavern Was Trackbacked To Death

    Now that things have calmed down, it’s time to discuss what happened that took WPTavern.com offline. It all started the day I published my review of the Backup Buddy plugin from PluginBuddy.com. That post not only received a large number of comments, but it ended up on StumbleUpon and was overall a large success. However,…