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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

Networking, friending, and info leak


This subject, yet again, could easily expand into a book and is largely out of the scope of this volume. However, given the possible risks from malware and social engineering to our WordPress sites, at least, we must highlight the over-riding concerns.

Social networks, chat services, and similar networking opportunities are the latest security battlefield. The user's enthusiasm to pal up to strangers coupled with the eagerness of networks to milk users' private details for ad-targeting equates to a hacker's paradise.

This applies not only to services such as Facebook and Twitter, or the more business-centric networks such as LinkedIn, but equally to tools such as Skype, to messaging services, with sites such as Digg, to IRC, the use of Usenet, to P2P and to those torrent sites. Equally, discretion is required in forums, on wikis, and lest we forget, in blog comments.

Alarm isn't limited merely to over-zealous friending or casually sharing our profiles, photos...