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…
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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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.
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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