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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

Summary


By now we should have an armour-plated PC to underpin a safe web development working environment and should be able to research and adapt our solutions to effectively safeguard other local devices as well.

Among other things, our machines should sport super-secure anti-malware solutions as well as first class password management. Coupled with backup and program discipline, both of these key concerns are particularly important as we prepare to venture into the security minefield that is the wider online network.

Most importantly, we should have a fair grasp of the security scene both in terms of anti-malware and of the overall risk to systems. Logically simple as it is, the default-deny strategy has been an essential concept to grasp. It will become a recurrent theme.

Let's move on. In Chapter 4, we'll begin with the router, consider the use of public computers and wireless hotspots, address our e-mail, and readdress our data and, more than likely, give Microsoft a hard time again when...