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There’s been a lot of hubbub lately regarding security and WordPress. You’ve probably read a few of the more popular articles about the matter, and likely heard some of the opinions from notable technology gurus. Some of the solutions to increase and maintain security for a WordPress installation are rather straightforward— others… not so much. [...]

Most Common Passwords. A great article explaining why your password probably sucks (in terms of security) and what you can do about it.

We’ve heard from you: each upgrade of WPtouch is painful, we know- you add your custom icons, get everything all set up… only to have to re-add and re-add them over and over again with each successive upgrade of WPtouch. The way WordPress upgrades plugins is out of our control- so when you upgrade through [...]

Just before the New Year we fell victim to a malware attack, which targeted our webhost and compromised our account security. Though it’s a reality that no form of hosting is 100% secure, we’ve decided to move from Bluehost over to the more established Media Temple, a host which we’ve taken issue with in the [...]

Apple needs a punch in the gut for this security breach

Holy server resources and bandwidth suckage Batman! Seriously- hot-linking to your images and media files from search engines and other sites can be a good thing- but also a very bad thing, depending on what it is that being hot-linked and whether or not you want there to be external linking to your file(s). In the [...]