Notes on cleaning up the MediaTemple hack (JohnnyA)

24 Jul 2010 | Tags: Wordpress, exploit, security

NOTE: Be sure to read through the comments, there's a lot of additional and very useful information in there. I'll compile the notes as soon as I'm able and add them to the main post.

First, the hack

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