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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

Sniffing out malformed packets with Snort


The web's top-rated NIDS solution, Snort, checks incoming packets against a rules-base and reports the results to a MySQL database as well as, as discussed previously, to OSSEC:

That's handy, especially when fronted by Snorby, a powerful interface that makes analysis a snap and which makes a Snort-specific alternative to using Splunk's GUI:

We need to work in superuser mode so take root:

sudo -i

Installing the packages

Install Snorby with Ruby on Rails to power it, Snort's MySQL version and dependencies:

aptitude install apache2-prefork-dev build-essential git-core libapr1-dev libaprutil1-dev libopenssl-ruby rake ruby rubygems ruby1.8-dev snort-mysql

Snort's installation options

During Snort's install you'll be prompted twice.

Specifying the network

Snort wants the IP address range of your local network...