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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

Managing passwords and sensitive data


Quite likely when you began 'puting and surfin' you used only a few passwords, else maybe just the one, and likely you recycled passwords for various functions. Maybe you had one strong password for your PC login, another for online banking and punier ones for social networks, for forums and whatnot.

Meanwhile, you'd been filling out all those tedious web forms, assisted by that handy form filler. Maybe you wondered whether it was safe to add a credit card number to that filler, and then you heard about keyloggers, identity theft and fraud, and wondered again.

The risks and practicalities aren't even that simple. Let's consider this. What do we need?

To protect our passwords, sure. And our data, super-sure. But how?

We live in an online and web-centric world where we use multiple machines, multiple OS types, multiple browser flavors and you get the picture. To operate best we need data accessible from everywhere, hyper-heavily encrypted, and with tight...