Posts Tagged ‘security’
It can be surprising how easy it is to overlook security issues in software design. WordPress for example, after all the versions, still displays login error information that can be informative for a potential hacker. Rather than displaying a generic login error message, WordPress admin specifically displays whether a ‘username’ was entered wrong or a [...]
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With WordPress installations on the rise, security threats are a common concern for users. Below is a small collection of WordPress plugins that I found adequate for use on most WordPress installations to keep security in check. As always security is not 100% achievable, but the following plugins will help you find any loopholes in [...]
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Today a couple of hours back my site got compromised. Not much changes to the code, but the .htacces was changed and some code like the below was added to the .htaccess file, which redirected the traffic coming from search engines to a malware site.
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How to Fix PHP Vulnerabilities
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Auto scanning of selected web pages for malicious scripts
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Top 25 list of software vulnerabilities
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Simple design usually underlies a successful security mechanism on a web site. Make it more complex than required and the user suffers from a barrage of logins and redirections. Make it too simple and you risk your site being compromised. The following 6 principles draw on ideas of simplicity and restriction. In the following list [...]
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