BulletProof security for WordPress
secure your WordPress
The BulletProof Security WordPress Security plugin is designed to be a fast, simple and one click security plugin to add .htaccess website security protection for your WordPress website. Activate .htaccess website security and .htaccess website under maintenance modes from within your WordPress Dashboard – no FTP required. The BulletProof Security WordPress plugin is a one click security solution that creates, copies, renames, moves or writes to the provided BulletProof Security .htaccess master files. BulletProof Security protects both your Root website folder and wp-admin folder with .htaccess website security protection, as well as providing additional website security protection.
Website security protection against: XSS, RFI, CRLF, CSRF, Base64, Code Injection and SQL Injection hacking…
You can find more information about the plugin here…
Writing for the Web: SEO tips for success
writing for the web
Content is king in the land of the search engines! The more text you write, the more keywords you cover, the more pages Google will index, the more relevant Google will find your website. Does that mean you can write anything? No! Successful SEO copy writing has several requirements.
Using keywords
Keywords are the words that are used to reveal the internal structure of an author’s reasoning. While they are used primarily for rhetoric, they are also used in a strictly grammatical sense for structural composition, reasoning, and comprehension. Using keywords is very important. If you do not use keywords, how will Google know what you are writing about?
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The best CMS for SEO
best CMS for SEO?
Here is an interesting thought; Which of all the CMS’s out there is the best for SEO? Are you looking for an out of the box solution that fit all of your SEO needs?
SEO Plugins
I think there isn’t any. Of course, the most popular CMS’s like Drupal, Joomla and WordPress can help you as good as it’s gets to fulfill your needs with lots of SEO plugins or extenions. For example, the All-In-One SEO Pack has become a necessary addition to every WordPress site. This plugin allows you to edit Meta data, including title tags, meta descriptions and keywords. But there is so much more than just the All-In-One SEO plugin.
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Tips to secure your WordPress blog
secure your WordPress
In this article, I’ll show you some useful tweaks to secure your WordPress-powered blog. Not from being hacked, but from being harassed by spam bots.
Security has always been a hot topic. Offline, people buy wired homes, car alarms and gadgets to bring their security to the max. Online, security is important too, especially for people who make a living from websites and blogs.
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The future of webdesign
A look at web design trends of the past, present and future…
The year is 2011 and we have again found ourselves at the dawn of a changing web. Emerging technologies like smartphones and web-enabled tablets have left us unsure of how users are browsing our websites, and new coding standards like HTML5 and CSS3 are turning web design into something more like print design. With all of this change comes massive opportunity for growth, but only for those who are prepared…
The big question is… Just What is the future of webdesign?
The future of web design is a hot topic right now, with many designers voicing their hopes and wishful thinking; some realistic and some bizarrely out there. Let’s start with a bit of perspective by refreshing our minds to web design in past, old trends and styles.
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MacGuard malware more dangerous than MacDefender
malware for Mac discovered
Malware: OSX/MacDefender.F and OSX/MacDefender.G
Risk: Medium; effective SEO poisoning has led many Mac users to this type of malware, and no administrator password is required to install this new variant.
Again a malware emerged that pretends to be a virus scanner, but actually is the opposite. The MacGuard malware is more dangerous than MacDefender.
The main difference between the two is that MacDefender could not be installed without the administrator password. MacGuard can! Visiting a website is enough to initiate an installer program. The user still has to install itself by pressing the install-button. That’s why Intego considers the risk of infection as “medium”.
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Fake Antivirus Program Targets Mac Users
Malware: OSX/MacDefender.A
Risk: Low; in the wild, but not very widespread for now
Intego has discovered a fake antivirus program called Mac Defender, which targets Mac users via SEO poisoning attacks (web sites set up to take advantage of search engine optimization tricks to get malicious sites to appear at the top of search results). When a user clicks on certain links after performing a search on a search engine such as Google, they are sent to a web site that displays a fake Windows screen with an animated image showing a malware scan; a window then tells the user that their computer is infected.
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iPhone knows where you live
iPhone tracker
OMG! This fascinating and scary at the same time.
It will not surprise you that your iPhone at all times know where you are. Therefore has it after all GPS equipment on board and may also determine its location by the proximity of mobile measuring poles. But did you know that the data is being preserved? Two British researchers came to this discovery when they were working on a visualization of mobile data.
In an iTunes backup their own iPhone, the British found a file with all location data that the iPhone had gained so far. The file is automatically updated when the iPhone is synced with iTunes.
According to the researchers, the file is not a direct threat because the data is not used by Apple and only through your own backup available. At the same time there is talk of potential danger because the file is not encrypted and can be read easily. For this contention, they put themselves to the iPhone tracker utility (OS X only) that you just made the entire geographical history of you and your iPhone signal strength display.
source: www.onemorething.nl
Update – May 1, 2011: official Q&A of Apple about ‘locationgate’.
Update – May 4, 2011: Apple releases iOS 4.3.3 Software Update. This update contains changes to the iOS crowd-sourced location database cache including:
- Reduces the size of the cache
- No longer backs the cache up to iTunes
- Deletes the cache entirely when Location Services is turned off
Keep your Mac secure
be in command
You can keep your Mac secure on the Internet by taking a few simple steps beyond those many significant ones that Apple has built into Mac OS X.
- Require a Password on Login and for Screensaver Deactivation. These settings require a system password to be entered before use of the system or when returning from the screen saver or waking up from sleep mode.
- Keep up with Software Updates for the MacOS as well as browser updates if you use a third-party web browser such as Firefox. These updates often include security patches to protect you.If you don’t use services such as remote login, file sharing or remote desktop then keep them turned off.Keep your date and time current in the ‘Data & Time’ System Preference pane, preferably using the ‘Set date & time automatically’ feature. If your date and time are wrong you can get warnings from good, secure websites due to the date and time mismatch. The problem with this is that if you get too many false alarms because of this issue you might accidentally ignore a real warning.When you log into web based email, always try and use an https link instead of http.
CSS3: Non-Standard Web Fonts
Believe it or not, but Non-Standard Web Fonts was first implemented in Internet Explorer 5. The @font-face rule is now a standard in CSS3. The syntax is as follows:
@font-face {
font-family: Softpedia-Font;
src: url('Andale Mono.ttf');
}
This will make the user’s browser access the given URL and download the given font to be employed inside that page. Currently, the CSS3 standard will support the OTF, TTF and EOT font types.
If a weighted or italic version of the font is needed, that form of the font-family must be included in the rule, as well as in a separate declaration, as follows:
@font-face {
font-family: Softpedia-Font;
src: url('Andale Mono.ttf');
font-weight: bold;
}
Finally you need to address your font, like:
p.funky {
font-family: Softpedia-Font;
}
CSS3: textshadow
Many exciting new functions and features are being thought up for CSS3. I will try and showcase the text shadow on this page, as they are implemented in either Firefox, Konqueror, Opera and Safari/Webkit. Support for Internet Explorer 9 is announced by Microsoft (I’m curious, though…).
Text shadow:
text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ff0000;
p.shadow {
color:#000000;
text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ff0000;
}<code>
Only users of Webkit (from Safari 3+), Opera 9.5 or higher, Firefox 3.1(pre-Alpha) or higher, Konqueror or iCab should see a red drop-shadow behind this paragraph.
</code>
Is there no way to fool IE7/8/9? Of course there is:
p.shadow2{
color:#000000;
position: relative;
display: inline-block;
filter: Shadow(Color=#ff0000, Direction=125, Strength=1);
}<code>
Only users of Internet Explorer 7/8/9 should see a red drop-shadow behind this paragraph.
</code>
Secure your iPhone
Are you afraid of your iPhone now that you know there’s a crazy security flaw exposing all your private data? Imagine if you left your iPhone in the backseat of a cab. Next thing you know, some embittered cab driver has stolen your phone — no, wait, your life that was once in your pocket — and he’s sweet-talking your 200 (give or take 199) gorgeous lady friends, e-mailing your mistress and texting your drug dealer.
Who in the world would want that? Luckily, there’s stuff you can do to protect your phone from bare-naked exposure.
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