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Protect your WordPress from Mass Brute Force Attacks 17 Apr 2013 | 01:55 pm
Last week a sophisticated botnet that targets and launches brute force attacks against WordPress blogs and websites has been detected. Some WordPress hosting providers suffered downtime, security expe...
“Social Media Widget” Adds New Undocumented Feature – Spam Injection 10 Apr 2013 | 08:14 pm
WordPress.com have removed the rather popular Social Medial Widget (nearly a million downloads) from the plugin repository. The most recent version of the plugin was found to be injecting spam message...
Improving WordPress Security 8 Mar 2013 | 12:43 pm
It is well known that WordPress is the most popular Content Management System (CMS) on the World Wide Web. Developed with PHP, and powered by mySQL databases, WordPress is used by an astonishing 8.5% ...
There’s no Guarantee of Security 23 Jan 2013 | 07:01 pm
When it comes to the web, there’s never a guarantee of complete security. In fact, a clean bill of health doesn’t mean you truly have a clean bill of health. Similar to how a blood test or MRI scan ca...
Protect Young Entrepreneur Start-up Business Websites with WebsiteDefender 16 Jan 2013 | 06:28 pm
Young entrepreneurs in England looking to finance a new business should investigate the UK government’s Start-Up Loans program. Previously available only to people between the ages of 18 and 24 living...
MasterCard Suffer Online Attack 11 Jan 2013 | 08:27 pm
The multinational financial services corporation MasterCard has become one of the first hacking victims of 2013. The attack was performed by the Syrian Electronic Army who managed to submit a blog po...
What if you Really Don’t have Anything Hackers Would Want? 9 Jan 2013 | 08:17 pm
I often make the argument that even if you don’t believe you have anything of value on your website, bad things can still happen. So, what exactly does this mean? Well, it’s not going to be the end of...
An Unhappy New Year – Security Researcher Discloses New Batch of MySQL Vulnerabilities 2 Jan 2013 | 08:23 pm
Earlier this month, on the Security Week website, Steve Ragan published an article about a security researcher who posted several vulnerabilities to the Full Disclosure mailing list – seven of these a...
Have a Merry WordPress 3.5 Christmas! Make it Last All Year with the WebsiteDefender Plugin 20 Dec 2012 | 05:42 pm
The folks over at WordPress released WordPress 3.5 on 11 December. A veritable Christmas present for bloggers and developers, WordPress 3.5 is chock full of new features and improvements. The most dra...
Improved WebsiteDefender WordPress Security Plugin 18 Dec 2012 | 08:17 pm
Today, we have released an update for the WebsiteDefender WordPress Security Plugin. This updated version fixes a few issues. Go ahead and update it from your WordPress dashboard, or by downloading th...
