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 …

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 …

In the book Swedish Hackers a Swedish hacker group claims to have access to 101 accounts from the Parliament of Sweden (email accounts at riksdagen.se). The information on this list seems to have been collected during several years from various hacks that hasn’t previously been known by the public.

Last month Flash Player had to be updated because of a nasty bug that allowed evil-minded people to take control of a computer after an Excel spreadsheet with an embedded malicious Flash file had been opened on the system. This is of course not the only time Flash and Adobe …

Our spam checking WordPress plugin WP-Check-Spammers has been upgrade to version 0.3 with a little help from csixty4 on wordpress.org. The pugin will still continue to check comments against spam databases and blacklists to see if the IP address, name and email of the person making the comment is a …

Amazon has released a new service called Amazon Simple Email Service, which is integrated with other AWS services, making it easy to send emails from applications being hosted on services such as Amazon EC2. The service is created for both businesses and developers and the pricing is really good (like …

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 …

Most of you are already using Akismet and other plugins to stop spam in your blogs, but all of those plugins use server CPU and memory to stop the spam so even if the spam isn’t showing up in your blog it’s causing problems for your server. In on of …

Do you remember the letters you used to get from Domain Registry of America trying to get you into paying over-prices for domain transfers? Now there’s a new trick going on. Or at least I’ve never got one before.