3 Surefire Ways to Back Up Your WordPress Blog: Step-by-Step Ways to Protect Your Blog from Disappearing

Product DescriptionSo, you’ve got this really cool WordPress blog! You’re feeling like all is really great. Then, one morning, you find out that it’s been hacked! It’s gone. What will YOU do? Well, if you’ve backed it up, then you’ll just restore it. Problem solved! Did you know, that it’s not AUTOMATICALLY backed up? And [...]


CMS Security Handbook: The Comprehensive Guide for WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and Plone

Product DescriptionLearn to secure Web sites built on open source CMSsWeb sites built on Joomla!, WordPress, Drupal, or Plone face some unique security threats. If you’re responsible for one of them, this comprehensive security guide, the first of its kind, offers detailed guidance to help you prevent attacks, develop secure CMS-site operations, and restore your [...]


WordPress: DDoS Attacks Came From China – PC World

While computers launching the attacks might be based in one country, they could be under control of hackers in a third country. Users at high risk of malware infections that can be used for DDOS attacks are those that don’t run anti-virus software …


Are WordPress themes necessarily open source? (Dave Winer/Scripting News)

Dave Winer / Scripting News:Are WordPress themes necessarily open source?  —  An interesting question has come up in the WordPress community.  —  I am writing about it before I’ve heard both sides, so I can say what I think without being influenced by other points of view.  Later I will try to absorb them and [...]