As many of you know, the recent security breach at wordpress.org caused millions of users to have to reset their passwords. If wordpress.org can be hacked into, you’re dreaming if you think that your WordPress site is impenetrable. WordPress’ single [...]
Notice that you can’t get access to the forums or trac? Can’t commit a plugin or theme? Yesterday Matt announced that WordPress had force reset all WordPress passwords due to a security breach. Three popular plugins – WPTouch, AddThis and [...]
Have you ever noticed that WordPress shows your login username in the author archive’s URLs? This is what it looks like: Here’s a quick tip: If you want to add an extra layer of security, you can change the author [...]
Do you use WordPress safely? Did you know that there are loads of ways that hackers can attack both your website and your computer using malware or malicious code? In this post, we’ll took an in-depth look at all of [...]
The big buzz today in internet technology is a new extension for Firefox. It’s called Firesheep and it’s not as tame as it sounds. It was written to expose HTTP session hijacking vulnerabilities. Firesheep poses a serious threat to your [...]
Removing the WordPress version from your header is something that can help to make your site more secure. There’s no need for you to be advertising your version number in your source code. Here’s how you can remove it yourself. [...]
Here’s a quick security tip that will make it nearly impossible for anyone to access your wp-config.php file. Simply move it one directory above your WordPress root. Example: Default wp-config.php file location: public_html/wordpress/wp-config.php Move it here: public_html/wp-config.php Source: For more [...]
For security reasons it’s important to make sure that people cannot navigate your /plugins/ directory. Depending on how your server is set up, your directories may be listed for all to see when visiting those URL’s. You can check on [...]
Worried about someone hacking your WordPress site? Here’s one way to make it just a little bit more secure. This little snippet restricts access to your /wp-admin/ directory to only the IP address that you specify, which puts your admin [...]
If you’re responsible for a WordPress site then you need to know how to keep it secure. You cannot afford to leave your product and investment unprotected. Most of these strategies will take you under two minutes to implement but [...]
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