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This past week an exploit was announced relating to the venerable Duplicator plugin. The Duplicator plugin is frequently used to make a backup of a WordPress site for either archival purposes or for migration to another hosting account. I quote from the article, “An unauthenticated, remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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Just a random observation for all you folks using security plugins to monitor your website. Website security is a lot more than running a “plugin” and hoping for the best. Most of the well-known security plugins will do fine in catching the obvious malware. But keep in mind that malware is only a symptom. The Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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In the less common but interesting “website hacking” category, a client called me and reported that his website didn’t appear to be hacked. But his hosting space usage had been growing at an alarming rate for the past month.   From the outside, all appeared well. There were none of the usual bad entries in Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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If you are a fan of WordPress, it’s likely you’ve run into that pesky plugin, Akismet. Akismet is Automattic’s anti-spam service option, backed by a massively large global spam database. That’s a good thing, right? Absolutely! And I would argue that not installing Akismet is akin to leaving the window open in a rainstorm. “You Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":10}