Wordpress Hack...

Somebody hacked my Wordpress blog and added an Online Gambling link to my blogroll?

I have removed the link, but...

What are the best ways to prevent this?

 

change all personal information that you use to log in.

 

I just implemented a variety of new security features at all levels...what a shame...

 

Now Scan you'r blog , with WP Security Scan
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-security-scan/

 

What version was your Wordpress?

If it was updated to 2.9.2, you might have a backdoor hidden in there... It is being used on these SEO spam
attacks. Similar to this:

http://blog.sucuri.net/2010/05/seo-spam-network-code-used-and-more.html
http://blog.sucuri.net/2010/05/seo-spam-network-details-of-wp-includes.html

 

Same here... it just happened on my self hosted wordpress blog.

Someone managed to change the admin email and password.

Luckily I was logged and reacted quite rapidly. I logged his IP...

 

blogconnector: What version of Wordpress are you using? This is a bug on WP 2.8.x that they fixed already.

Code that they might have added:
http://blog.sucuri.net/2010/05/seo-spam-network-code-used-and-more.html

 

try update your wordpress version

 

updating will surely solve the problem

 

2 ways to prevent this
always update your wordpress to latest version
and make sure the password you use is a wicked long one with weird characters e.g 65($#vcfR4457&^5