Co-Founder of Mozilla Project

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Co-Founder of Mozilla Project

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Blake Ross, the Co-Founder of Mozilla Project WordPress Blog's Hacked by Wordpress.net.in Blackhat Spammer.
Blake Ross WordPress blog is being run by wordpress.net.in goro spam injection.

Who's Blake Ross

Excerpt from wikipedia

Blake Aaron Ross is a software developer who is known for his work on the Mozilla web browser; in particular, he started the Mozilla Firefox project with Dave Hyatt, as well as the Spread Firefox project with Asa Dotzler while working as a contractor at the Mozilla Foundation.In 2005, he was nominated for Wired magazine’s top Rave Award, Renegade of the Year, opposite Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Jon Stewart. He was also a part of Rolling Stone magazine’s 2005 hot list.

Image Source, The cover for issue #13.02 (the February 2005 edition) of Wired magazine featuring Blake Ross holding a Firefox globe as part of the lead article, The Firefox Explosion, about the browser’s development history.

HTML Source & ScreenGrab
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- Screenshot taken on Feb 28th, 2008
WordPress Vulnerability
1. Outdated WordPress
  
  WordPress 2.0.4 Exploit & Vulnerability
  
  Blake’s is running on WordPress 2.0.4 first release on Jul 29th, 2006.
  
  wp-db-backup.php directory traversal Rev.4226
  
  Mark Jaquith on WordPress 2.0.5 Changelog
  
  µ Proxy Cached: blakeross.com WordPress Version (feed)
2. WordPress Core Directory & Plugins Informations Leak
  
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  Index of /wp-includes Name Last modified Size Description [DIR] Parent Directory 25-Dec-2006 01:14 - [ ] cache.php 03-Sep-2006 23:52 11k [ ] capabilities.php 03-Sep-2006 23:52 11k [ ] class-IXR.php 03-Sep-2006 23:52 27k [ ] class-pop3.php 03-Sep-2006 23:52 21k [ ] class-snoopy.php 03-Sep-2006 23:52 37k [ ] classes.php 03-Sep-2006 23:52 51k [ ] comment-functions.php 03-Sep-2006 23:52 31k [ ] default-filters.php 03-Sep-2006 23:52 5k [ ] feed-functions.php 03-Sep-2006 23:52 4k [ ] functions-compat.php 03-Sep-2006 23:52 3k [ ] functions-formatting..> 03-Sep-2006 23:53 34k [ ] functions-post.php 03-Sep-2006 23:53 30k [ ] functions.php 03-Sep-2006 23:53 71k [ ] gettext.php 03-Sep-2006 23:53 11k [DIR] images/ 03-Sep-2006 23:50 - [DIR] js/ 03-Sep-2006 23:55 - [ ] kses.php 03-Sep-2006 23:55 22k [ ] links.php 03-Sep-2006 23:55 20k [ ] locale.php 03-Sep-2006 23:55 3k [ ] pluggable-functions.php 03-Sep-2006 23:55 17k [ ] registration-functio..> 03-Sep-2006 23:55 4k [ ] rss-functions.php 03-Sep-2006 23:55 21k [ ] streams.php 03-Sep-2006 23:55 4k [ ] template-functions-a..> 03-Sep-2006 23:55 5k [ ] template-functions-c..> 03-Sep-2006 23:56 13k [ ] template-functions-g..> 03-Sep-2006 23:56 21k [ ] template-functions-l..> 03-Sep-2006 23:56 15k [ ] template-functions-p..> 03-Sep-2006 23:56 15k [ ] template-loader.php 03-Sep-2006 23:56 2k [ ] vars.php 03-Sep-2006 23:56 3k [ ] version.php 03-Sep-2006 23:56 1k [ ] wp-db.php 03-Sep-2006 23:56 10k [ ] wp-l10n.php 03-Sep-2006 23:56 2k Apache/1.3.39 Server at blakeross.com Port 80
  
  µ Proxy Cached: http://blakeross.com/wp-includes/
  
  View blakeross.com WordPress Plugins Directory Listing
  
  Index of /wp-content/plugins Name Last modified Size Description [DIR] Parent Directory 27-Sep-2006 22:27 - [DIR] akismet/ 03-Sep-2006 23:52 - [ ] hello.php 03-Sep-2006 23:52 2k [ ] wp-db-backup.php 03-Sep-2006 23:52 30k Apache/1.3.39 Server at blakeross.com Port 80
  
  µ Proxy Cached: http://blakeross.com/wp-content/plugins
Hardening Wordpress?

There is 105,000 WordPress blogs leaking their plugins informations for BotNet to scan.

Blackhat SEO targeting High PR WordPress Blog

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About the Author

Avice is a designer based in Penang. When not working, hiking, or banging on the piano, she’s usually found ranting about web design on her personal site, Kaizeku Ban.
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