Archive for November, 2007
New WordPress Spam Plugin
I new WordPress anti-comment spam plugin names Defensio has been released and the word on the street is that it compares to Akismet. The feature list according to the Defensio site includes:
Stellar accuracy, thanks to an adaptive, personalized filtering algorithm
Ridiculously easy spam management
RSS feeds of your comments and spam
Detailed statistics for complete transparency
Not just for [...]
Alicia Keys MySpace Compromised
The guys over at Exploit Prevention Labs have reported Alicia Keys MySpace account getting compromised. A short time after MySpace addressed the problem, another vulnerability was discovered and it was hacked into again.
Reflections on year old Google blog hack
A while ago I released an article explaining the key differences between hosting ones own blog and using a developer hosted blog like Blogger.
I stumbled across an old news post on Gaurdian around a year old this month where Google’s blog was hacked. Google said:
“A bug in Blogger enabled an unauthorized user to make a [...]
Hardening WordPress with htaccess update
We have released a newer version of our popular Hardening WordPress with htaccess guide.
The changes are mainly to solve some bugs and also to allow more flexibility along with security.
The new guide will show you how to allow access for plugins like Democracy while still restricting direct access to other plugins. It also solves some [...]
Whitepaper becomes Weißbuch
We received some great feedback after releasing our Secure WP Whitepaper, and it just got better for our German readers!
Sven Kubiak has translated our popular "Securing WordPress Whitepaper" into German. BlogSec does have a strong German userbase, and we hope our German readers enjoy it!
The Whitepaper was translated by Sven Kubiak, with some editing by [...]
