The Security Dance – Part 2

Welcome back! Last week’s article, There are no wallflowers at the security dance! Get to know your dance partners covered getting to know your security dance partners: If you are the business steward or a part of the management team, you already know the burden...

The Security Dance – Part 1

If you have your business on the Internet, you are a part of a line dance. You can chose to be a wallflower, and face the consequences of doing nothing. Or you can get to know your fellow dance partners (maybe picking replacements for ones that no longer fit), and be...

PCI Compliance Scans and Small Business Gripes

Just as more government regulations tend to strangle a small business to death (worse case) or slow its growth (best case), so goes for PCI Compliance standards which add little to no practical value to security. Some house keeping first in terms of going over some...

Making WordPress more secure

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Let me share steps you can take to make your WordPress site more secure against hackers. Please note a number of the steps I will share are listed on Hardening WordPress, Official WordPress Codex article. In May 2011, I...

Find the hacker

I received a phone call towards noon today from a hosting provider in Florida who, after spending days of trying to locate the source of spam coming from sites they host, needed expert help to locate the source of the problem. While they knew the domain names of sites...