Reflections
Guest Blogger: Web Business blogs get hacked
Sherif Elsisi from tdot-blog.com Web Hosting is our guest blogger this week. He shares his experiences and frustrations of how his WordPress blogs were hacked and how he dealt with it. Great read.
I manage a small web hosting business. Lately I had multiple attackers on my customer sites specifically targeting WordPress sites. I was [...]
Remote blogging security tips
The idea for this post came to me while visiting Malaysia for a project. My hotel wireless connection was down for the entire week so I had to hunt one down. Lucky for me they have a couple of really nice Starbuck Cafe’s in Kuala Lampur.
I decided to put a few DOs and DONTs when [...]
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 [...]
BlogSecurity Earns Technorati Top 10K
Its the small achievements that often motivate us onto greater things. BlogSecurity earned a place in the blog top 10K according to Technorati.
We are going to party and enjoy the moment as well as save this image :) Thanks to everyone who has contributed thus far, I think BlogSec has really released some awesome content [...]
Choosing the right anti-spam solution
One of the awesome ideas behind blogging is the ability to allow feedback in the form of comments. Unfortunately, 2 in 3 comments are spam. So a number of solutions have been made available that combat spam in different ways, however, some methods can really annoy your users and limit long-term feedback.
Captcha – Also known [...]
