New Tool To Help Fight Web Site Hackers

Today, I released a new open source, free tool that will hopefully help everyone in the fight against having their sites hacked. Here’s the info on the MonitorHackdFiles tool. We all hear about how often people’s sites get hacked. This tool won’t stop that from happening, but here’s what it *will* do. Let’s say a hacker places some malicious code in either some existing files... read more

Online Backup Services I Highly Recommend

How often do you backup your computer? Have you automated the process? Do you have a backup off-site, in case some tragic event wipes out everything in your home? Do you backup nothing, cross your fingers, and hope you never need a backup? I used to be like most people who would answer those questions with the following answers: “Huh?”, “No”, “No”,... read more

Web Site and Business Disaster Planning

Ever noticed the fact that I display a post called Emergency Preparedness List in the Featured Posts section of the sidebar? That’s because I went through Hurricane Katrina and I know how important it is to be prepared for disasters. I want to make sure each of you is aware of it as well. But this post isn’t about real life disaster planning. This one is about planning for your web site or... read more

The Basics of Feed Readers and Your Choices

I mentioned the use of feed readers in yesterday’s post, and I thought it might be a good idea to delve into the topic of RSS feeds, subscribing to blogs, and and feed readers in more detail. What are RSS feeds? A feed is a special file that lists summaries or full posts from sites or blogs, with a link to the original post. This feed might contain the last X posts from one blog, or it might be a... read more

Is Your WordPress Blog Wearing Protection?

The WordPress admin is fairly vulnerable to hackers. Hackers know where the admin is; they know the username for the admin is usually “admin”, so that only leaves one problem – the password. For a hacker, that’s not a really big problem. Just run a brute force attack and in a matter of time, there’s a good chance of figuring out the password and logging in. What comes... read more