Archive for June 2012
WP Late Night #15: My First Podcast
Following up on my post this morning, talking to my experience on WPLate Night, WPCandy released last nights live recording this afternoon, so go check it out. Oh and special thanks to the guys at WP LateNight for getting my good side in the banner: Look forward to feedback. I always feel funny listening to…
Read MoreSecurity Hole Found in KeePass Password Manager
Earlier today researcher Benjamin Kunz Mejri, Vulnerability Lab, reported to ThreatPost that he had found a vulnerability in the open-source password manager, KeePass. The vulnerability is supposedly in the way the application filters and validates data. If exploited, the vulnerability could be used to inject malicious scripts. To work though it’d require a number of conditions…
Read MoreInstalling WordPress via Terminal and Securing The Server
So what better way to kick off my security related posts than to summarize the steps I took to get this website up. Big thanks to Daniel Cid for all the guidance and hand holding. This post will provide a cradle to grave review of the process I just went through in the past 48…
Read MoreThe Beginning of the End: My New InfoSec Blog
Today I start what is likely to be the beginning of the end for me. My knowledge of Information Security, in its basic form, goes back to 2009. That’s when, as a Defense Contractor, I found myself staring at the Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) set forth by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). The objective was…
Read MoreReview of the WordPress AntiVirus Plugin – Effective or Not?
After my most recent Review of the WordPress WordFence Plugin post I felt it was only fair that I take time to review the effectiveness of other similar security focused plugins in the WordPress.org repository. It’s important to understand that while I work for an InfoSec company my focus is not on whether its a…
Read MoreReview of the WordFence Plugin – Effective or Not?
As of late I have been seeing a lot of traffic on various mediums, WordPress.org, Twitter, and Facebook about this new plugin – WordFence. It hasn’t been around for too long I don’t think, maybe 6 months or so, and I have been getting a lot of questions around its effectiveness, etc… I get this…
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