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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

Bloggers and zines


To understand security in depth, you must know the hacker's mindset, so let's meet some. The personas of these folks and communities span a wide spectrum of the security character. All understand what it is to be black hat. Thankfully, they are snow white. What's more, what protection we have, largely, we owe to them ... so bless their cottons.

2600: The Hacker Quarterly

Old-school hackers meet tomorrow's challenges in 2600, a cult journal incorporating features, the Off The Hook radio show presented by 2600's Eric "Emmanuel Goldstein" Corley and, just for the hell of it, pictures of payphones from around the planet:

CGISecurity

To stay abreast of the online threat-look, Robert Auger's site and feed is a good call:

Darknet

Don't Learn to Hack - Hack to Learn is the deal with Gareth Davies' WordPress-powered security stage, a splendid, amenable blog with something for everyone reading this:

Dark Reading

A collaborative site with cracking features, a rack of resources, and category-based feeds:

ha.ckers

Robert "RSnake" Hansen hacked his life and no longer posts to his cult security in-depth site, but his sardonic humor lives on with an archive that's well worth a trawl:

KrebsonSecurity

Less hacker and more hack, Brian Krebbs news site is ideal if you don't dream in binary:

Jeremiah Grossman

Guru-on-a-rocket Mr Grossman's accessible prose conveniently translates geek to sleek:

Phrack Magazine

Punching since 1985, Phrack takes pulsing topics, cracks them right open, and swallows the kernel whole. Heady stuff, but best of breed: