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Tech Crunch Hacked by OurMine: Are Our Websites Safe at All?
As a lot of us following technology news might know by now, TechCrunch was hacked today, by OurMine. The message left by hackers was caught just before the post was taken down: According to OurMine’s website, the organisation is made of “professional hackers and vulnerability assessors” who “only care about the security and privacy of…
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WordPress Firewalls vs. Antiviruses
When you’re a WordPress blog or website owner, waking up to a bad case of malware mayhem is your worst nightmare, especially because of the devastating consequences to your brand. This is why it’s absolutely essential for anyone with a WordPress site to look into security and recovery options. One of the most common security…
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Of Censorship, and the ‘Walled Gardens’ of Content
Fans of Dennis Cooper, the experimental artist and writer, have expressed concern over Google’s removal of the artist’s Blogger account and blog of 14 years. What’s worse, his Gmail account, the medium through which most of his correspondence was conducted was also rendered inaccessible.The writer’s blog, was a choice destination for followers of transgressive, avant…
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Limiting Access to WordPress Admin Directory using IP Address
In an earlier article, we spoke about password protecting wp-login.php with HTTP authentication. There, we came up with this amazing analogy that if your WordPress were a house, HTTP authentication would be a fence to it. Now, imagine deploying a guard at your fence door to further secure your house (your WordPress site). This guard…
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Top 5 Ways to Monetize your WordPress Blog
A website management platform as flexible as WordPress can be used to create and run numerous different sites for various purposes, blogging being one such purpose. Blogging might start as a hobby, but somewhere down the line, for most people, it becomes more than just that. With quality content and a decent amount of traffic,…
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Setting Up Two-factor Authentication for WordPress with Google Authenticator
You know how they say that insects develop resistance to insecticides over time? Well, that’s sort of how it’s become with passwords these days. Passwords have been used to secure user accounts for such a long time now that they’ve started to lose their effectiveness. Of late, more and more hack attacks have become successful….
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How to Find the Right WordPress Theme for your Website
The first thing that speaks out to your blog’s visitors would be its appearance, its design. In order to enthrall your readers in no time at all, it is important to select the ‘perfect’ theme for your blog. And for this, you’ll have to spend some quality time searching for a theme that fits your…
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How to Block Google from Indexing your WordPress Site
So you’ve just installed WordPress on your system and are raring to go. You’re thinking of how to start and what to start with. However, before you embark on the journey of developing your website, there’s a tiny little thing you need to do – prevent Google and other search engines from crawling your site….
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Setting up a travel blog using WordPress
If you love to travel, you would want to have a travel blog at some point. It can help you in the following ways- You can connect with like minded travellers and even find some company for the next trip You can journal all your travel experiences and photographs in one place to share with…
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