Archive for November, 2007
WordPress Security Scam Artists
Add WordPress Secure’s protection to ALL your blogs for a cost of a pizza!
Sounds great right? What a load of nonsense. The site "www.wordpresssecure.com" claims to have a plugin that secures your blog, with the slogan:
Don’t be another hacked statistic!
After checking the feature list, the site says it will protect your wp-admin directory…. I scrolled [...]
More WordPress targets for spam
Lately, a number of high profile sites have been targeted for spam and some don’t even know it. I stumbled across a post from EB where Al Gore’s Climate Crisis blog has been hacked and defaced with hidden Ads.
The image above shows the Ads hidden within the blog. The blog is running a very old [...]
Role Manager 2.2 Released
A new version of the popular WordPress Role Manager has been released. New features include:
using 4 single pages: one for roles, one for capabilities, one for general information and statistics and one as a short internal help page
role- and capability-names are now restricted to a maximum length of 30 signs
only chars, digits and spaces are [...]
RR Securing WordPress Tips
Robert C. Rodriguez wrote a nice post on his blog giving some WordPress security tips. To summarise he suggests:
WordPress Version – Always a good thing to do, however, becareful how you go about doing this; if you remove the global WP version this may affect some plugins and the core WordPress functionality.
Keep Everything Updated [...]
Cisco starts security blog
Cisco have just started a security blog:
The purpose of this blog is to make you aware of what makes the global internet more secure, keep you updated on some of the latest developments, and give you greater access to the Cisco security community. We plan to update the blog several times a month so add [...]
