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WordPress 3 Ultimate Security

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WordPress 3 Ultimate Security

Overview of this book

Most likely – today – some hacker tried to crack your WordPress site, its data and content – maybe once but, with automated tools, very likely dozens or hundreds of times. There's no silver bullet but if you want to cut the odds of a successful attack from practically inevitable to practically zero, read this book. WordPress 3 Ultimate Security shows you how to hack your site before someone else does. You'll uncover its weaknesses before sealing them off, securing your content and your day-to-day local-to-remote editorial process. This is more than some "10 Tips ..." guide. It's ultimate protection – because that's what you need. Survey your network, using the insight from this book to scan for and seal the holes before galvanizing the network with a rack of cool tools. Solid! The WordPress platform is only as safe as the weakest network link, administrator discipline, and your security knowledge. We'll cover the bases, underpinning your working process from any location, containing content, locking down the platform, your web files, the database, and the server. With that done, your ongoing security is infinitely more manageable. Covering deep-set security yet enjoyable to read, WordPress 3 Ultimate Security will multiply your understanding and fortify your site.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
WordPress 3 Ultimate Security
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Proactive about anti-malware


Security tools, and their rapidly changing market, are generally misunderstood. Aside from the tens of thousands of malwares that are newly-released and savaging networks on a daily basis, this ignorance is the number one reason that we succumb to attack.

In fairness to the consumer, confusion is hardly surprising with products offering incapable technologies, a range of plans, and a foggy cloud of marketing hype.

The reactionary old guard: detection

The traditional anti-malware solution has been to have a firewall plus an antivirus scanner. The two-way firewall remains important. The average antivirus on the other hand, while not defunct, should be accepted for what it is: helpful but severely insufficient.

What these antivirus products have given us is protection against known threats and that's accomplished with signature scanning. What they have also added to the arsenal is heuristic scanning, a leap forward to check a file not only against a database but also...