Posts Tagged ‘security’
Upgrading to WordPress 3.0 and Adding Multi-Site
Posted on June 19, 2010 by snipe in Featured, PHP/mySQL
WordPress 3.0, code name “Thelonious”, has been released, and it brings multi-site functionality as part of the core. As someone with far too many blogs of my own, I thought this would be a great time to start switching them all over, and let you know what you’re in for if you choose to do [...]
An Open Letter to Rackspace Cloud Hosting
Posted on January 28, 2010 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
I just received an automated email from Rackspace that made my brain melt. It’s no secret that a lot of websites have been hacked lately. One thing they seem to have in common is that they’re all running WordPress, and a lot of them are hosted at the Rackspace Cloud.
When Your WordPress Blog Gets Hacked
Posted on January 25, 2010 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
It happens to most bloggers at some point – your WordPress blog gets pwned, and you’re not sure where to even start. I’ve gone through this process enough times, helping friends restore their blogs after a hack that it seemed like it might be helpful if I wrote an article about it.
Web 2-Point-Owned: Apple.Com’s XSS Exploit
Posted on November 3, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
Earlier today, we got a glimpse of what happens when a big company forgets to cross their t’s and dot their i’s. And in programming, that means failing to validate user-entered data before displaying it on-screen.
Moving to Mosso
Posted on January 14, 2009 by snipe in Misc, Web Development
I am in the process of migrating all 200 domain names (approximately 100 websites) on my server over to Mosso – which is why you would have gotten a 404 if you happened on the site for a short time last night. (.htaccess did not transfer correctly, so mod_rewrites were borked.) Sorry for any inconvenience [...]
Cheap or Free Website Status Monitoring
Posted on January 2, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
Its a call you never, ever want to get. “My server is down!” or “Our website has been hacked!” As a developer, there are few things that make you look worse than getting a call from your client letting you know that their site is down, or worse yet, hacked. Even if you’re not directly [...]
Warcraft Security Better Than Banking Security?
Posted on December 9, 2008 by snipe in Featured, Geek Life
Is your World of Warcraft account more secure than your online banking account?
Facebook and MySpace Users, Beware!
Posted on November 7, 2008 by snipe in Featured, Tips & Tricks
I have received two virus emails from two unrelated friends, indicating their accounts have been compromised. The messages are being sent through Facebook and both have had a spammy sounding subject line and a link to a geocities website. This was suspicious enough, but the fact that one message came from a friend I haven’t [...]
Generate lists of banned words for forums and other applications
Posted on July 22, 2008 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
If you develop software for a living, or if you moderate any online forums, you may have found yourself in the situation where you need a list of banned or blocked words. The problem is, what works for one application doesn’t work for another. A forums targeted at adults can probably have a little more [...]
Track Your Stolen Laptop (for Free) with Adeona
Posted on July 14, 2008 by snipe in Life Tools
Adeona is the first Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary, central service. This means that you can install Adeona on your laptop and go — there’s no need to rely on a single third party. What’s more, Adeona addresses a critical [...]
Identify and Fix SQL Injection Vulnerabilities in Web Applications
Posted on July 1, 2008 by snipe in Featured, PHP/mySQL, Web Development, Windows Downloads
Scrawlr is a free software for scanning SQL injection vulnerabilities on your web applications, developed by HP Web Security Research Group in coordination with Microsoft Security Response Center.
