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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


Good stuff. WordPress is not only armor-plated, but it's very hard for us to make some dumb mistake and hack our own sites. Even if we do, our backup solution, coupled with Appendix B's Don't Panic! Disaster Recovery, will have us back in business fairly painlessly. As for hackers, their best in is with a server vulnerability and we'll be covering that, in spades.

But let's detour now from the technical guts of apps and boxes, to take a look at the ins and outs of what so many of us ultimately need to secure, our content. In Chapter 8, Containing Content, we'll find out where our copy and media is vulnerable, where it's being misused, and what we can do to keep it on a leash.

The gloves are off. Let's go and scrap with the scrapers.