wp-eCommerce spam fixed

Posted on 30. Mar, 2009 by Philip in Big Trousers News, Software, Web design

So after 5 days or so of ongoing sales spam the guys at Instinct have released a fix.

Good to hear.

Here is a full list of changes:

  • More fixes to stop the spamming of purchase logs
  • New dashboard widget
  • Donations widget now refreshes the cart when on the checkout page
  • Fixes to remove backslashes from product names with single quotation marks
  • Admin purchase log RSS feed fixed
  • Paypal Express shipping module fixed
  • Target Markets feature added

Download now and upgrade your installation

wp-eCommerce attacked

Posted on 28. Mar, 2009 by Philip in Big Trousers News, Software, Web design

From the 22nd of March wp-eCommerce plugin installations have been attacked by some zombie robot attack. The attack bombs an account with hundreds of false purchase’s with no product listed and $0.00 sale price.

e-commerce-attack
Not a huge dilemma in a security sense but the false entries would take a user all day to delete through the backend.
We are looking at deletion through the database just to clean things up but we will wait till the version 3.6.11 proves not vulnerable to such attacks.
Here’s hoping..