Leonard Austin

• After an immense gorillaz set last night, watching lightning seeds in the sun with a beer. Perfect #fb #glasto #
• If you're watching glasto on tv i'm the one with the straw hat watching gorillaz. You cant miss me. #
• Hot chip, very very good live. Moracas on stage are a treat. #fb #glasto #
• Dizzee rascal straight into it, crowd loving it! #fb #glasto tonights going to be massive. #
• Kele john peel, absolutely awesome! #fb #
• Snoop dog trying for a dramatic entrance. 6.25 out of ten. #
• Willie nelson covering 'always on my mind' by elvis. Awesome. #fb #
• In the glasto circus area watching some crazy acts. Saw orange women, giant men riding bikes and tea ladies. Also Switched to carling. # … #
• watching rolf harris opening glasto. Bit of a limited act but drinking foster's in support. #fb #
• Just had my second oggie pie of the festival. Only 30 mins before it all kicks off! #fb #
• Made it to glasto only took 8 hours. #fb #
• Packed and ready for Glasto! #fb #
• @elmarko I don't care about that. Being on thursday and the new iPhone. in reply to elmarko #

• Long day bed time. #fb #
• NDC Awards tonight. (@ The Rose Bowl) http://4sq.com/cC0hUo #
• Just written a quick blog post on the recent security hole in WordPress http://bit.ly/9OOQtJ #
• Should of gone to bed earlier, got to get up early tomorrow. Nevermind, 3 hour sleep is more than enough, right? #
• It's taken my a while but I finally understand Zend Form decorators, and it 's good. #lightbulbmoment #php #zendframework #
• @rackcloud Any ETA for RackSpaceCloud in the UK yet? in reply to rackcloud #
• At work, BT exchange is down so no Internet. Not very useful when we're a web design company. Running off a very slow dongle. Not happy #
• Office Space just started on @Film4 can't go to bed now. Might not go to work tomorrow got a #caseofthemondays #
• Lunch (@ Pickles and Potter) http://4sq.com/5M6LRf #

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I’ve been hearing a lot of buzz recently about WordPress sites being hacked, however apart from the occasional tweet I haven’t actually seen any articles describing the problem but then again I haven’t really been looking.

My WordPress installation is running the most recent version and I assumed it was just one of those security holes that only affected people running older version. I think I might be wrong. I host most of my WordPress sites with Rackspace and I receive an email from their support saying that they may have found suspicious values in my WordPress DB. So I got a little worried and started searching a little harder.

Anyway I came across this excellent article about this particular hack and how to find out whether your WordPress site has been hacked, specifically with the Phara Hack.

http://www.pearsonified.com/2010/04/wordpress-pharma-hack.php

The worrying thing is that is article seems to suggest that nobody knows how the hackers are getting into the WordPress sites. Although, I guess it could have been a hack from a previous version of WordPress but just activated now?

It also ends with a link to another excellent article on how to make your WordPress installation more secure.

http://www.wptavern.com/top-5-wordpress-security-tips-you-most-likely-dont-follow

Luckily I didn’t find any of the tell-tell signs mentioned.

Hopefully you won’t need this information but I thought I mention it anyway, hopefully WordPress will find the security holes if there is one and patch it quick and hopefully WordPress 3.0 will be out soon.