The Pingback feature was disabled for all myblog.arts blogs, due to security concerns. This feature can be used by external users to co-opt WordPress blogs in attacks on other websites. There may be an update to WordPress in the future which will enable us to reactivate Pingbacks. What is a Pingback? Here’s a brief explanation […]
Tag: security
Recent outages – update
The myblog.arts service was unavailable last night and for some of this morning. This was due to the site being flooded with login attempts from unauthorised users. We have taken steps to prevent this recurring, and will be monitoring the performance of the site closely. Apart from the unavailability, the site was not compromised. With […]