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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]