Posts Tagged ‘security’

What Exactly Does WordPress Tell the World?

7 / Mar / 2011

We have lots of corporate clients. They have important websites, sometimes with particular intellectual property and information that they’d rather not share with rivals. Consequently, knowing what information is being sent by the software underpinning your website is important. We knew that WordPress is chatty from previous articles such as Lynne Pope’s on WordPress Privacy, various discussions on WordPress support… continue reading ⇢

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A Common-Sense WordPress Security Primer

6 / Sep / 2009

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There’s been a big fuss lately over the latest WordPress hacks that have targetted older versions of WordPress. And in my view, they show the less pretty side of WordPress and some people in the community… but not all of them. The attitude has been a straight “upgrade your blog and you’ll be secure.” Well, I have news for you. … continue reading ⇢

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Safer Passwords & Using PasswordMaker

7 / Feb / 2008

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You may find passwords to be an unecessary chore. But they’re important. However, inventing strong passwords is difficult… and they’re hard to remember. So you need to be able to generate passwords on the go and the solution is Password Maker – a great way to have safe, difficult to crack passwords which works beautifully as browser plugins.

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