Dropbox is a fantastic way of saving and also sharing your files, not only for easy access between your own computers but also to share with others. If you're going to save file of a more private nature in Dropbox, then you should consider encrypting them first. Continue Reading
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Earlier in May I wrote about a plugin for WordPress blogs that will limit the number of login attempts you can make before you get blocked. This is purely done to protect your blog from brute force attacks where someone tries passwords until they find a matching one. Continue Reading
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I've previously mentioned that a secure password that's hard to guess is key when it comes to security. Since even a password with random characters (both numbers, letters and special characters) can be cracked if enough time is spent trying to guess the password you need to protect your WordPress blog from letting people guess [...] Continue Reading
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As you may have already read in the news, WordPress.com (the WordPress hosting service provided by Automattic, not the self hosted open source platform) had a security incident last week. Someone gained root access to some of the servers used by Automattic and possibly anything on the servers could have been copied. Continue Reading
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In the first part of this blog post series I wrote about the hack against user accounts on several popular sites like Facebook and Salesforce. I also mentioned that it's easy to secure your own site from this problem by using a SSL certificate, so in this blog post I will show you how to [...] Continue Reading
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I guess you've seen how user accounts at several popular sites like Facebook and Salesforce can be hacked so someone else could get access to the users full account. Continue Reading
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Did you think you had a secure password for your email for example? Or maybe you think that the password you use for Facebook, Myspace, Twitter or Plurk is uncrackable? Then you need to rethink! Continue Reading
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