If you run WordPress and have upgraded to 2.1.1 over the past few days, you should immediately read the post below from the WP team and take appropriate action:

http://wordpress.org/development/2007/03/upgrade-212/ 

Briefly, the WordPress site got jacked and some cracker(s) inserted an exploit directly into the 2.1.1 package.  To their credit, they have announced it, created a fix, and have implemented some security controls in an effort to prevent this from occurring again.

From a personal perspective, I have to deal with these crackers every day.  Each day, there are hundreds of attempts to jack into freepository.  So far – knock on wood – no one has cracked the site.

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