Previously, I wrote an article about the dangers of publishing blog posts from your admin account.
If you’ve changed the default WordPress admin user name from ‘admin’ to something else, great. However, if you write a post as the admin, your new admin username will be displayed on your blog. Not good.
In order to help you [...]
Tag: security
Oct
12
2009
Encrypt Your USB Thumb Drives
I just had an unpleasant episode that really reminded me of the need to have some kind of encryption on your thumb drives.
I was leaving a friend’s house, got in my truck and drove home. I unloaded my pockets as usual and discovered–no thumb drive.
I did find the flash drive a few minutes later, by [...]
Photo credit: Anton Balazh
Updated: 12/04/2009–Note: This information applies also to pages as well as posts.
Anytime you see suggestions for making your WordPress install more secure, you’re gonna see the regular suspects:
Change your database table prefixes
Update WordPress and WordPress plugins regularly
Change the default WordPress admin username
These are all good suggestions that you should certainly be doing [...]
You should 
