By changing the default administrator username of your Wordpress login can be a great security measure to help prevent unauthorized access to your WordPress admin dashboard. Your Wordpress site is at risk if you are still using the default username admin. Attackers, either a human being or a robot can use the username to attempt log into your Wordpress dashboard. It is … [Read more...]
Windows Live Messenger: Beware of Unsolicited Messages Sent From Your Friends’ Live Account
Recently (Starting from the beginning of the year), I received quite a lot of messages with links from my friends' Live account on Windows Live Messenger. The messages were sent by my friends' intention and some of the messages were sent as offline messages. As discover by a few other bloggers (LiewCf and CyberHQ), the links in the messages will redirect you to a MSN … [Read more...]
WordPress: Make Your WordPress A Little Bit More Secure
When you login into your Wordpress Admin using wrong username, your Wordpress will prompt you an error message: Invalid username. When you login into your Wordpress Admin using wrong password, your Wordpress will prompt you an error message: Incorrect password. You may not notice the two error messages above actually give the intruder some hints about your login … [Read more...]
PHP: How to Protect Password in Database – Password Hashing
If you are a programmer, you may have developed applications that store users or your customers' information in database. How to store users' or customers' sensitive data (especially password) might be an issues for most programmer. How do you ensure and convience that your users or customers' password are actually secured? … [Read more...]