Speaking of WordPress Security… I was hacked!

Just last week I spoke at Kelly McCausey’s Hot Seminar Series about WordPress security and the need to keep your sites up to date, remove unused plugins, themes, etc…  I shared lots of great tips on how to protect your WordPress sites from being hacked.

Then, just two days after I spoke, [Read more...]

Blog Site Security: Is Your Blog Secure?

This week I heard of more folks who had their blogs hacked. While the first impulse is to blame the blogging platform, the truth is there was a security loophole that made it easier for a hacker to gain access to these blogs.

Those loopholes usually include one (or all) of three things:

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