WordPress 3 Ultimate Security
Hi Amazonians :)I guess my Preface to the book best sums up why you may need it, so here goes ...Surf safe,Olly.~Most likely, today, some hacker tried to crack your WordPress site, its data and content. Maybe that was just a one-off from some bored kid. Just as likely, it was an automated hit, trying dozens of attacks to find a soft spot. Then again, quite likely it was both.Whether you've been successfully hacked already, else want some insurance,Welcome.Let's be frank, up front. Web security has no silver bullet. The threatscape is simply too vast, the vulnerabilities too numerous. Your risk stretches from the keyboard at your fingertips, through and out the back of your local machine, buzzing around its network, maybe through your phone, into the router, hopping across your web surfing, into the remote server, buzzing around that network and jumping all over WordPress.Gee whiz!In other words, changing theadminusername, mashing a new password, and swapping the table prefix doesn't address much, important as these things are. They, and pretty much all theTop Tipsguides, combine limited security with a false sense of security.Place your bets. Your site, whatever its hosting type, is only as safe as the weakest local-to-remote link, and then some. You can shore up WordPress, and you must, but if some Joe Hacker comes along, physically or technically, and grabs a password from your local machine, else bothers to profile you online, then, a few tools later, I'd back the black hat.I'm sorry if that scares you. The intention is to emote you, to induce you to read not justChapter 6(10 Must-Do WordPress Tasks) plus maybe a bit of7(Galvanizing WordPress), but to read the lot. I'll try to keep you awake. That being done, I'm also sorry to break this but that's not it. Security is like dogs and Christmas, it's a life-long deal. Fortunately, even though the hacks get better, your security management gets easier and, maybe this author's just a bit sad but, really, hacking the security war is quite good fun.Sold?Whether you are or not, readChapter 1(So What's the Risk?). Then see what you think.