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Dre Armeda and Brad Williams on User Security [VIDEO]

Dre Armeda and Brad Williams on User Security [VIDEO]

Here’s a great video of WPVibe.com co-founder Dre Armeda along with CEO and founder of Webdev Studios, Brad Williams. Together, they are discussing WordPress User Security.

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Security Warning: User Photo Plugin

Security Warning: User Photo Plugin

You won’t catch me writing about security threats very often here, but when I do, it’s because I feel it’s worthy of writing about it. Today’s security warning is about the WordPress plugin “User Photo.” This plugin has not been updated since 2008-12-4, which means over 2 years ago. You should always be careful when …

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WordPress’ Frequent Updates: How bad is it?

WordPress’ Frequent Updates: How bad is it?

Often I’ll catch people complaining that WordPress gets updated too often. This or that, saying something bad about WordPress and how frequently the platform gets updated. My question to everyone out there is this: would you rather power your website by software that doesn’t get updated enough, or by software that gets updated too often? …

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Lockdown Your WP-Admin with “Login Lockdown”

Lockdown Your WP-Admin with “Login Lockdown”

Login Lockdown is a great added security plugin. If you feel you have people trying to guess your password to login to your site, this plugin will be a great fit for you. So some of the options includes max login attempts, retry time restrictions, lockout length, along with lockout invalid usernames and masking login …

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WordPress 2.8.5 Security Update Released

WordPress 2.8.5 Security Update Released

There is an upcoming security update to WordPress which should be released today. A vulnurability was found in the WordPress trackback code that could allow attacks to DDoS your site. Should you be scared? No. So why am I not scared about this bug? If someone wanted to DDoS my site, they would. They don’t …

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