wordpress security

Security Alert: WpPhpMyAdmin WordPress plugin Can Expose your Site to Hacker

July 23, 2011

At ShoutMeLoud, I keep writing about various WordPress plugin and in some of the post I mentioned about phpMyadmin plugin, which used to be one useful plugin to open phpmyadmin from WordPress dashboard. Personally I used to have this plugin on couple of my blogs until today. Today couple of my blogs like CallingAllgeeks and Thesiscustomizationservice were giving some weird error and even my Antivirus Nod32 was showing HTML/iframe Trojan alert when ever I opened ...

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Top WordPress Security Plugins To Check Hacked WordPress blog

October 28, 2010

WordPress is a php & database based blogging platform and is always targeted by hackers. There are many WordPress plugins are there which are very useful to prevent WordPress hacking. Here I have created a list of Top WordPress Security Plugins which will help you to protect your blog from hackers. We have already informed how hacked WordPress themes harm your blog and why you should not download free premium WordPress themes. Anyways, many bloggers still fall ...

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How Hacked WordPress Themes Harms your Blog?

October 26, 2010

I’m sure all of us here who are using WordPress are aware of Premium and free WordPress themes and their advantages and disadvantages. And also, many of you are aware that you can easily find any Premium WordPress theme on torrent or warez site. Many bloggers, don’t even realize that these hacked WordPress themes are slowly effecting your blog, as many of them contains encrypted links, code. In this post we will look into some ...

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Limit Login Attempt : Secure WordPress from Brute Force Attack

July 25, 2010

Being a blogger it is obvious that you are much concerned about the blog security. We all like to keep our blogs secure against the hackers. Wordpress users are lucky enough that there are several security plugins and other template tweaks to safeguard the blog from hacking attempts. One of them is changing the default wordpress username ‘admin’

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7 Essential WordPress Security Tips

July 5, 2010

For any website, a security strategy is a must. And as wordpress is the most popular open source software for blogging, it is a primary target of many malicious attacks. Wordpress has many protective plugins, functions and techniques to save you. When used in an aggregate, these tools can defend you from vicious activity, hacks, spam and other threats. Let us have a look to few of these techniques today.

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