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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

Chapter 2. Hack or Be Hacked

You probably took the hint by now that, put succinctly, your whole network from local power up to remote page query is one big bag of risk. What fun.

The question is: how to shore it up? You could simply trawl this tome, follow the links and, one would hope, end up with a tough nut of a site and with its wider network equally hardened. Then again, the copy-paste do this do that approach doesn't properly acquaint you with security's first friend, awareness. Hack or be hacked is designed to help here.

Chapter 1 was about theoretical awareness and, let's face it, we yawned a bit. Chapter 2 practises awareness as you take on a hacker's mindset and toolkit to gauge the risks, relative to your network, head-on:

  • Introduce the hacker's methodology ...

  • ... reconnaissance, scanning, gain access, secure access, cover tracks

  • Carry out reconnaissance to uncover information leaks

  • Detour into a DNS 101 to make sense of port scanning

  • Take steps to secure domain names at the registrar...