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Secure Your WordPress Blog Against Malicious URL Requests

by Sam on April 18, 2010 · 8 comments

in Other Tutorials,Security Tutorials,Tutorials

Protect Your Blog

As I continue the series of techniques to secure and protect your WordPress blog, today I will be showing you how to protect your WordPress installation specifically against Malicious URL Requests that inject code to exploit your theme’s files and MySQL database. If you missed my previous security articles, you may view: 5 Extreme Steps [...]

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5 Additional Extreme Steps to Secure Your WordPress Blog

by Sam on April 11, 2010 · 13 comments

in Blogging & SEO,Other Tutorials,Security Tutorials,Tutorials

Secure your wordpress blog

You can never be too prepared when it comes to internet security, so I have posted a continuation of my previous post,  10 Simple Steps to Secure & Protect your WordPress Blog, with an additional 5 tips to make it 10 times more difficult for your WordPress site to be compromised by hackers. Here are [...]

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Have You Ever Been Hacked? Simple Mistakes to Avoid & How to Recover

by Sam on March 26, 2010 · 26 comments

in Blogging & SEO,Other Tutorials,Security Tutorials

Wordpress Hacked

WordPress is the most popular blogging platform in the world with over 6 Million downloads so far (See why I like wordpress here) and because its so popular, you know the bad guys will begin to target its users. Hacking is a very serious issue that can cripple any website and erase a hard earned [...]

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10 Simple Steps to Secure & Protect your WordPress Blog

by Sam on March 20, 2010 · 32 comments

in Blogging & SEO,Other Tutorials,Security Tutorials,Tutorials

As of the beginning of 2009 there were approximately 133 Million blogs online. This is a pretty large market and also the perfect playground for unscrupulous persons who live for spamming, scamming and just creating malicious programs that can seriously compromise and disable unsuspecting sites. As wordpress blog owners, we need to do everything possible [...]

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Easily block spammers’ IP using a .htaccess file

by Sam on February 26, 2010 · 2 comments

in Other Tutorials,Security Tutorials,Tutorials

I’ve been going through my website traffic statistics for my blog and noticed some spikes in activity in terms of page hits, that could not be accounted for as legitimate user traffic. So within my webalizer tool (A free tool used to monitor domain traffic and activity) I decided to hunt down the source of [...]

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