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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

Abused, fair use and user-friendly


Here's how our content proliferates beyond our pages, plus some legal need-to-know.

Scraping and swearing

Scraping is the black hat practice of aggregating content from a variety of sites into the scraper's site for the purposes of generating advertising revenue and search rankings.

The largely automated content management provided by WordPress, for example, coupled with its wide choice of preset syndication plugins or third party scripts, offers an ideal platform for non-technical types to set up and flesh out splogs and AdSense farms.

If you have something worthwhile to say, then your content is being targeted. Quite likely, in far-flung corners of the web, it has already been scraped and draped.

The problem with scrapers

The ramifications to the producer depend on how content is reused and your priorities and sensibilities. Many won't care, but others will be incensed by unauthorized or non-attributed use of their intellectual property, sometimes copied in...