WordPress build has backdoors built in

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Apparently, crackers managed to break into a WordPress server and add malicious code to the 2.1.1 build of WordPress that allows for remote PHP execution.

This is probably one of the most sophisticated types of security attacks – embedding trap doors in trusted builds. And extremely worrying for the open source movement if it takes off.

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