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WordPress 3 Ultimate Security

You're reading from   WordPress 3 Ultimate Security WordPress is for everyone and so is this brilliant book on making your site impenetrable to hackers. This jargon-lite guide covers everything from stopping content scrapers to understanding disaster recovery.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849512107
Length 408 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

WordPress 3 Ultimate Security
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
So What's the Risk? Hack or Be Hacked FREE CHAPTER Securing the Local Box Surf Safe Login Lock-Down 10 Must-Do WordPress Tasks Galvanizing WordPress Containing Content Serving Up Security Solidifying Unmanaged Defense in Depth Plugins for Paranoia Don't Panic! Disaster Recovery Security Policy Essential Reference Index

Managing passwords and sensitive data


Quite likely when you began 'puting and surfin' you used only a few passwords, else maybe just the one, and likely you recycled passwords for various functions. Maybe you had one strong password for your PC login, another for online banking and punier ones for social networks, for forums and whatnot.

Meanwhile, you'd been filling out all those tedious web forms, assisted by that handy form filler. Maybe you wondered whether it was safe to add a credit card number to that filler, and then you heard about keyloggers, identity theft and fraud, and wondered again.

The risks and practicalities aren't even that simple. Let's consider this. What do we need?

To protect our passwords, sure. And our data, super-sure. But how?

We live in an online and web-centric world where we use multiple machines, multiple OS types, multiple browser flavors and you get the picture. To operate best we need data accessible from everywhere, hyper-heavily encrypted, and with tight...

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