Microsoft has admitted that they have discovered another security flaw that affects all Internet Explorer users, although it appears that no-one has so far exploited the flaw.. Although the actual problem is part of Windows, not Internet Explorer, they have warned that the bug only affects the running of Internet Explorer, meaning that other browsers [...]
It has been revealed today that a leading UK cosmetics firm has had its website hacked and the financial details of many customers have been compromised. Details of transactions as far back as 4/10/10 have been taken from the site with at least 43 such customers discovering that fraudsters have used their cards to buy [...]
If you have your own website with a login area then security is paramount. You must protect it against hackers and one technique they will use is brute force. How do you prevent this? By Keith Lunt, ©janric.co.uk Website security is, very unfortunately, something that we all have to consider carefully. And limiting login attempts [...]
It is always very tempting with WordPress plugins to just install them and assume that they are doing their job correctly. And, most of the time, if they are not doing their job it is very obvious. However, I have discovered that a security plugin that I was using on all of my main WordPress [...]
If you are coding your own website and it has an admin area, then you might be surprised at how much security you have to include. If you do not, then a nasty surprise might be around the corner! An ideal way of securing the admin would be by only allowing access to one IP [...]
