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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

Integrity, logs, and alerts with OSSEC


Founded by the El Cid of HIDS Daniel Cid, OSSEC monitors your system configuration, file integrity, and any logs you throw at it. Its active response blocks badness and, by way of a tidy aside, it routs rootkits. What's more, it reports back to us by e-mail or by parsing data to a GUI, so we can home in on problems with efficiency:

Obtaining and verifying the source

You may or may not need some compilation tool or other, like so:

aptitude install build-essential

Now head to the downloads page, http://ossec.net/main/downloads, right-clicking and noting the link location for the latest Unix/Linux version. Take root, change to a suitable download location and, swapping your version for this one, get the file:

sudo –i
cd /usr/local/src 
wget http://www.ossec.net/files/ossec-hids-2.5.1.tar.gz

Check the file's integrity as explained in Chapter 9 and, swapping the version again, paste this to unpack the file, change into the expanded folder...