WordPress Security – Keeping It Safe.
WordPress.tv recently aired a wordpress security seminar where Brad Williams talks about how to keep your WordPress-powered website secure from hackers and exploits. A must watch!
We all seem to make the common mistakes mentioned herein, but the first and foremost “insecure” issue is caused by wordpress itself. I would like to see this changed so that when setting up the wordpress for the first time together with selecting the Blog Name Title and email, we should be given the option to set the “Admin” user name instead of the default “admin” as issued automatically by the install script.The screen-cast/slide show in the background of the video isn’t that great and you can hardly make out most of the things he is pointing out. So I’ve included them bellow for your benefit – a good point is to refer to them as you watch the video so that you can see exactly what is being talked about.
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As long as you keep it up to date you should be fine. Most of the time, when a site is broken into it is because it is running old software with known vulnerabilities. It’s just a case of investing the time and effort to keep the site up-to-date.
Thank you not only for providing the live video, but also the actual presentation. Very informative and helpful information. I have bookmarked your site so I can come back often.