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Ron Paul on the TSA scandal – [VIDEO]

Chris F. Masse — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:41:21 +0000

WordPress blog hacked: What to do, now?

Chris F. Masse — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:47:18 +0000

A nasty hacker has taught a lesson to research scientist David Pennock. The lesson is that our WordPress blogs are not secure, and we should be pro-active in reinforcing their line of defense. David Pennock’s post describing how his blog was hacked is worth reading if you own a self-hosted WordPress blog. Here are the external links he points to:

WordPress, remv.php and you
3 must apply security tips for WordPress
Hardening WordPress
5 plugins to keep WordPress secure
Anatomy of a WordPress hack (â€The kicker? All these sites were on Dreamhost.â€)
Did your WordPress site get hacked?
DreamHost: Troubleshooting hacked sites
Dealing with a hacker on DreamHost
Docs on WordPress feeds
AskApache plugin to display all the internal WordPress URL rewrite rules (example use) (I couldnâ€™t discern how to interpret the output)
WordPress exploit scanner plugin (I didnâ€™t use after this question spooked me)
Secure WordPress plugin
AskApache password protect plugin

There is one thing that our Yahoo! fanboy (who is now a “rock star” in India) didn’t tell his readers, though. Google Webmaster Tool is a great way to:

get warned about whether your site is vulnerable to hacking;
tell you the problems Google encountered when spidering your site;
re-include your site in the Google index after your blog has been hacked and you’ve cleaned it to the bones;
and the cherry on the cake is that Google Webmaster Tool will store the warning messages for you even if you’re not yet registered with them.

Our Yahoo! fanboy will never tell his readers that Yahoo! Site Explorer is much, much inferior to Google Webmaster Tool. Only Midas Oracle tells you the truth, folks.

WHEN CHRIS MASSE SENDS YOU AN E-MAIL AT WORK, BE ON YOUR GUARD.

Chris F. Masse — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:15:38 +0000

- 40% of companies surveyed investigated an email-based violation of privacy or data protection regulations in the past 12 months.
- 26% of companies surveyed terminated an employee for violating email policies in the last 12 months.
- 23% of U.S. companies surveyed said their business was impacted by the exposure of sensitive or embarrassing information in the last 12 months.
- 34% of the largest companies (20,000 employees or more) reported that employee email was subpoenaed in the last 12 months.
- 27% of companies surveyed had investigated the exposure of confidential, sensitive or private information from lost or stolen mobile devices in the past 12 months.
- 11% of U.S. companies surveyed disciplined employees for improper use of blogs/message boards in the past 12 months.
- 13% of surveyed companies disciplined employees for social network violations and 14% for improper use of media sharing sites in the past 12 months.
- 14% of publicly traded companies surveyed had investigated the exposure of material financial information (such as unannounced financial results) on blogs or message board postings in the last 12 months.

Google Reader has just censored Midas Oracle.

Chris F. Masse — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 17:23:34 +0000

I have just published a blog post (The Best Blogging Software (WordPress) + The Top 60 WordPress Plugins) containing a PHP code line. Funny enough, Google Reader has discarded that item for the Midas Oracle feed it republishes. —maybe for security reason (or maybe a dirty trick from Bo “Wet Blanket” Cowgill ).

So if you read Midas Oracle within Google Reader, here’s what you didn’t see:

The Best Blogging Software (WordPress) + The Top 60 WordPress Plugins

UPDATE: I have found a workaround. I have captured the HTML output of my post, and then input it in that post.