Password Protection

Click Here! For More Info  Refresher – Password Usage Let’s be honest, passwords are annoying. These days, we need a password or PIN everywhere. We have so many that we can’t keep track of them all. We forget to update them; and when we do, it’s difficult to come up with effective ones that we can still remember, so we procrastinate changing them for months, even years. We all know this is bad, but the alternative – the painful, irritating password creation and memorization process – is sometimes more than we can tolerate. There is...

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Identifying Badware

Click Here! For More Info Identifying badware behavior The first step to keeping your website badware-free is to check for any badware or badware behaviors that may already be on your site. What to look for: The three most common forms of badware that StopBadware sees on compromised sites are: 1. Malicious scripts 2. .htaccess redirects 3. Hidden iframes Malicious scripts: Malicious scripts are often used to redirect site visitors to a different website and/or load badware from another source. These scripts will often be injected by...

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PHP Security

Click Here! For More Info Defining PHP Security and It’s uses PHP is the most popular web programming languages in use today due in large part to the fact that it’s a highly flexible syntax that can perform many functions while working flawlessly in conjunction with html – Plus it’s relatively easy to learn for beginners, yet it’s powerful enough for advanced users as well. It also works exceptionally well with open source tools, such as the Apache web server and MySQL database. In other words, its versatility is unsurpassed when compared...

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Building a Secure Site

Click Here! Basic Ways To Increase Web Security Now that you know a bit about what can be done to your website by the bad guys, here are some ways to fight them off. Keep Code Up to Date There is no better protection than keeping your code up to date. Outdated versions of WordPress, old installs of PHP and MySQL, even old browsers, all of these are security issues because most updates to software these days are security patches. It is a rat race between those who want the Web to work and those who want to abuse it to make a quick buck or to steal...

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HTML Security

Click Here! For More Info Because you likely do not have much to do with your server let’s focus on things you do have full control of. HTML HTML is pretty safe. It is simply converted into text—no interaction with the server or calculations—so not much can go wrong. That said, you should always use HTML for what it’s for:     * HTML structures your content.       HTML is not a database to store information. The reason it is not is because you cannot rely on HTML content to stay unchanged. Anyone...

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Web Security

Click Here! For More Info Website security is an interesting topic and should be high on the radar of anyone who has a Web site under their control. Ineffective Web security leads to all of the things that make us hate the Web: spam, viruses, identity theft, to name a few. The problem with Web security is that, as important as it is, it is also very complex. I am quite sure that some of you reading this are already part of an network of attack computers and that your servers are sending out spam messages without you even knowing it. Your...

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