Dec
15
If you are a WordPress user you will have noticed that WordPress 3.02 has recently been released followed by WordPress 3.03 just a couple of days after.It is critical that you do upgrade your WordPress blog from 3.02 to 3.02 as version 3.02 introduced a bug that allowed malicious users to exploit the remote publishing …
Sep
22
In another post following on from the recent server hacks that I have suffered. I have been researching server security. SSH security is something that I have always been fairly strong on, but I wanted to check I was doing everything possible. Here is a list of things that you should do to improve the …
Sep
20
I have recently been blogging about how my web servers have been compromised. I am fairly sure that the attackers gained access to the server via WordPress. I use WordPress as the backbone to 90% of my sites, this being so it is critically important that it is secure. I have therefore been researching methods …
Jun
07
The title of this blog post will be a scandal in many people’s eyes; however, I will justify what I mean later in this post. In the technical circles there are many that continually bash the big commercial software companies, Microsoft, Apple, Adobe and so on for producing software that contains bugs and security flaws …
Jan
13
Following the disaster that I has with the web/mail servers I have taken an additional step to secure the servers as I am still not clear what the causes of the failure were. I have disabled direct root ssh login (which in debian is allowed by default) so you have to login as a non-privileged …
