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Geeky Stuff

Securing your WordPress blog

Bloggers have rushed to secure their selfhosted WordPress blogs after the recent massive hacks on shared hosts. I was one of them, even though only one of my blogs was affected. I spent hours browsing, looking for good resources, common knowledge, and solid tips to form a list of quitessentials on WordPress security. I also [...]

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Automatically monitor malicious file changes on your WordPress blog

During the the latest spree of hacks in April and May, hackers dropped a malicious .PHP script on the root directory of selfhosted blogs. The script changed all .PHP files, adding one line of code which redirected visitors to a virus-infested site, and then deleted itself. There was anything between a day and an hour [...]

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How to block users uploading malware to your blog?

Many shared hosts don’t protect you from users uploading and executing malicious code to your website. Here is how to close that loop hole for hackers.

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An analysis of the latest website hacks

After the latest spree of hacks on thousands of websites, it is time to look at some of the commonalities and ways to security our sites better. Given that the security holes are clearly at the level of the website hosting companies, and it is their duty to close those holes, nothing stops us from [...]

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Godaddy hacked again. Another way to cure your site.

Godaddy got hacked again this morning (This is what Godaddy has to say about it). Update: and again on May 20. If you host your blog on Godaddy, you would do well to check your site regularly for any malware, and here is how. The hack is the same as the previous 4 hacks, affecting [...]

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How to check if your blog is infected with malware?

I reported before how to detect if your blog was infected with the recent massive hackers attacks on hosting sites, and how to cure it. As a follow up, here is the easiest way to detect if your blog has the malware injected: Use the sucuri.net free scanner ! Just enter you blog URL including [...]

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How to cure your GoDaddy WordPress hacked blog

Update: I adapted a script to easily verify and cure the infection on your site. Check this post for more. The GoDaddy hosting service got hacked three times in a row now. On April 27, May 1 and May 7, many sites, including thousands of WordPress blogs, got infected by malware code. Update: GoDaddy hosted [...]

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Selfhosting or not: Hackers

In a previous post, part of a series about selecting the right blog platform, I urged you to think if you want to selfhost your blog or not. I revisited the subject, stressing the fact that when you choose for selfhosting, you should be aware of the many things bloghosting platforms like Blogger would do [...]

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The best free and sophisticated RSS tools

The past few weeks, I have been quite busy working with RSS feeds. I continue to be surprised about the possibilities RSS gives us, bloggers and web developers alike. Here is an overview of the tools I discovered: From RSS feed to Javascript: Feed2JS If you want to spice up a page on your website, [...]

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Changing a Blogger template

If you are a serious blogger, you will not only write blog posts, but also tweak your blog layout. You will add widgets, fine-tune the layout, add navigation features, icons etc… This takes up a significant amount of time and effort. As an example of “The Life of a Blog Master”, take a look at [...]

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RSS reversed: From Feed to Blog

We all use RSS mostly to read updates from different sites. What if we could reverse this, and use RSS to actually populate a site? Here is a story of RSS, in reverse. Maybe we should call it SSR instead of RSS… Both for work, and in my spare time, I scan the news (and [...]

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