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How to Firewall Your WordPress Blog
You already know to use a decent password for your blog, but brute-force or dictionary attacks aren’t the only attacks used against bloggers. It’s much cheaper and faster to exploit software flaws, and that the hackers do. A programmer’s oversight may allow a hacker to gain access to your blog to insert spyware, [...]
3 Tips to Avoid Dangerous Themes and Plugins
We all love how easy it is to install plugins and themes but how do we know there is no hidden jack in the box waiting to pop out? Viruses, worms and backdoors could be embedded into any theme or plugin and uploaded to the Internet for public consumption.
Here are three easy to use ideas [...]
WordPress Developer Notes
Introduction
WordPress scanner is a free online resource that blog administrators can use to provide a measure of their wordpress security level. It is BETA software and is continually being developed.
If you have landed here directly we suggest starting at the wp-scanner launch page.
This page is part of a group of pages discussing various aspects of [...]
WordPress Scanner FAQ
Introduction
WordPress scanner is a free online resource that blog administrators can use to provide a measure of their wordpress security level. It is BETA software and is continually being developed.
If you have landed here directly we suggest starting at the wp-scanner launch page.
This page is part of a group of pages discussing various aspects of [...]
WordPress Insecure by Design?
We have seen alot of critical vulnerabilities being discovered in WordPress core and its plugins of late, who’s to blame? This article will take a brief look into WordPress design and its core security functions.
One of the major problems I see with WordPress is that it provides little (if any) protection against input validation attacks. [...]
