Google launched a program to alert thousands of webmasters using Google Webmaster Tools, they are using an outdated version of WordPress, a popular blog published statement. This move serves as a reminder of the importance of using current versions of software and applications to ensure security.

Google has taken a different tack to improve Web security that is happening on the website owners directly.

Efforts announced by Google Oct.16, is a way for Google to webmasters warned that their sites are vulnerable to hackers. According to Google, the test will focus on 5000 to 6000 webmasters using Google Webmaster Tools and will notify them if you use the old version of WordPress.

Google Webmaster Tools is a set of products designed to help webmasters make their sites more Google friendly. For example, the technique can be used to provide measurement to show what are the top queries that are attracting traffic to the site.

"WordPress generate meta tags on their site … and it simply identifies the version of WordPress sites that currently," explains Jay Nancarrow, A spokesperson of Google. "When we crawl those sites, we are able to view these meta tags, and this is just an opportunity for us to give webmasters heads actions … that they are running this version, which was identified as a potentially weak places. "

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