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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

Local problems


There is no guarantee that anything you do remotely is anything but a short term fix unless you can be sure that your local machine and its web connection haven't been compromised. In some cases, the problem may be entirely local anyway.

Try accessing other sites with the same cache-cleared browser, then using another browser, and then a different PC. If at any stage other sites are working normally then, sure, your site or the server has some problem and, maybe, has been hacked.

Some local breach could still, all the same, be the underlying issue.

Maybe your wireless has been compromised by some sniffer who, for instance, plundered your FTP details and attacked your site. Or you could be being keylogged. It may not be the priority, but run virus and rootkit scans using the tools we looked at in Chapter 3.

If you can, perhaps while running the previously mentioned local tests, use a different PC for the site recovery process. Lose the wireless too, instead using an Ethernet cable.

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