WordPress Security

Mar 31, 2008 | Number One Wordpress Security Step

Posted at 11:10:55 am | Permalink | Posted in WordPress Security

what is the most important step you can take to keep your Wordpress blog secure? * Keep the software up-to-date This may sound almost patronizingly obvious, but hold on a second. Every day hackers use unpatched servers or services of one kind or another as the bread and butter of their trade (stealing data, creating Bot networks, selling hacked server access to phishers, etc.).

Mar 18, 2008 | Improving Wordpress Security In Five Easy Steps

Posted at 02:50:40 pm | Permalink | Posted in WordPress Security

Whilst Wordpress is a great publishing tool it does have it’s challenges and one of my greatest concerns is always security. The Wordpress team of developers do a good job of releasing regular fixes but as always hackers inevitably find loopholes and exploits in each new version.

Mar 18, 2008 | WordPress Security Guide

Posted at 02:47:29 pm | Permalink | Posted in WordPress Security

I had every intention of making this post part of my WordPress Guide series and even begun getting the information together. I always look at security of every “internet facing” application or service as integral part of the design and not something to be addressed later and was going to cover some basics here.

Mar 9, 2008 | WordPress security

Posted at 03:43:31 pm | Permalink | Posted in WordPress Security

Today I’ve found several open WordPress directories, which were accessible via the browser and open to cross site scripting attacks. All of the bespoken core WP directory files were NOT protected via a .htaccess file, I’ve tested ten sites with eight (!) open WP directories.

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