In the last few days, there’s been a lot of talk on the Internet about the security of WordPress blog software.
Several shared hosting companies apparently allow customers to view the text of other customer’s files by default, and that allows malicious customers to discover the database password of another site (from the “wp-config.php” file) and alter the site.
We’re receiving reports of network connectivity problems from a couple of customers using the “Global Crossing” Internet backbone to reach our primary data center, although most customers are unaffected. We’re investigating this issue.
Update 12:35 PM: Our upstream provider reports that an 8 minute network interruption for some connections, beginning at 11:11 AM Pacific time, was caused by a router failure at Global Crossing. The problem has been resolved.
