BLOG DESIGN JOURNAL

Securing website is a big challenge for web master. It includes server protection and website protection itself. Situation becomes more difficult when you are using some famous platform for your web site.

As wordpress expert, my aim is to secure and give maximum protection to my clients’ web site. We have to think as a hacker to block all possible ways of hacking a wordpress.

Let’s go through the complete process of securing our wordpress installation.

Securing User Name:-

Most crucial and important part of securing wordpress is to change its default user name “admin”, making your website vulnerable to brute force attach and hacking scripts. If you have access to cpanel use phpmyadmin and go to table containing name user. Edit this table and change the admin name to choice of yours.

Or create a new user with full admin power and login through that id and delete the admin user. Read the rest of this entry →

If you are like me, you are always downloading some new widget for your blog or some new toolbar for your browser. Then later, sometimes you find out that it was a vehicle for malware or some other sleazy purpose.

It may not seem like a design issue, but security is a very big deal these days. People are having their blogs hacked (and deleted). And those who rely on advertising or product sales from their blogs stand to lose a lot. So boring as security may seem to some, it is very important to all of us—whether we realize yet it or not.

What if you didn’t have to worry about security, or viruses, or malware anymore? And if you sell products on your blog or offer downloadable information, what if you could guarantee the safety of your downloads to your readers? In a believable way?

A company called Comodo (http://www.comodo.com) offers free antivirus and firewall software. But more important, they are on a mission to make the Web a safe place. Or as they put it, to bring trust back to the Internet. How cool is that? 

And their software is really free, not just a demo.