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Clean-up WordPress spam comments and meta data
How to clean up WordPress spam comments and meta data with phpMyAdmin. A lot of WordPress spam comments and meta data will keep your WordPress database huge, and slows down your site. It’s best to delete spam comments regularly, but if you’re facing hundreds of thousands spam comments, here is how to delete them all in bulk
“Simple Hack Threatens Outdated Joomla Sites”
Update your Joomla site… yet again. If you run a site powered by the Joomla content management system and haven’t yet applied a critical update for this software released less than two weeks ago, please take a moment to do so: A trivial exploit could let users inject malicious content into your site, turning it into a phishing or malware trap for visitors.
, Says Brian Krebs
Don’t turn off CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, fix your PHP configuration
An often heard solution to PHP cURL errors with SSL is to turn off CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER. Please don’t turn off CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, but fix your PHP config instead. This article provides you with two solutions to solve CA certificate validation errors with PHP cURL and OpenSSL. For system administrators and end-users.
Asp.Net Application Security
Finbar Ryan writes in his blog post Asp.Net Application Security: “I was recently helping a colleague with a customer who was running a security check against their IIS Server on Windows Server 2008. The security tool they used highlighted that the server was running Asp.Net and might be vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks. The Asp.Net engine does validate every request that comes in. We do however recommend that you still ensure your application is not susceptible to the scripting attacks that are out there…
7 Snippets to use .htaccess as a Web Application Firewall
.htaccess to secure your website
In this post I provide you with 7 .htaccess snippets to secure your website, by letting .htaccess act as a kind of Web Application Firewall (WAF). You can use this information to block out exploit- and rogue HTTP requests on your website.
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