Secure Blogging
2009
Are you afraid of your blog being hacked? Didn’t think so. It seems security is like life insurance, nobody wants it until it is too late. Wordpress is an open source project, meaning everybody has access to it. Hackers can use this to audit code thus find vulnerability’s. Once vulnerability’s are found, it does not matter if your website is hosted on wordpress.com, or if it is a independent blog you own your self; it is exploitable (hackable)!
WordPress is a pretty secure application. Many other security functions could be introduced with minimal code, but this is not implemented. The most dangerous part of wordpress and blogger are plug-in’s and website freeware. These are coded by independent coders in which may miss many bugs or possible malicious code. When a hacker finds this code, he may have anything from access to your websites database, to full out server access!
So how do you prevent this? Well, you can buy a firewall for your wesbsite called WebWall in which prevents the following attacks:
-SQL Injection
-Local File Include
-Remote File Include
-PHP Remote Code Execution
This firewall costs $49.99 per year and another $9.99 per domain license. To purchase this firewall, email piercecoding [at] gmail [dot] com
Another way of preventing this, is to use a secured blogging website like Free Blog Zone. FreeBlogZone was coded by coders in which dedicate their time to finding vulnerability’s and help patching them, thus making their own website fairly secure. Not only this, but they also use the latest version of WebWall firewall just in-case they somehow missed something! FreeBlogZone is a fairly new blogging website, but brings many new features to the table asides from security!
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August 31st, 2009 at 12:34 pm
hmm…. this is kinda disturbing I had never thought of in this light….you think blogger blogs have the same kind of vulnerability??
September 3rd, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Blogger is not too vulnerable, but they don’t have any such web firewall to prevent sql injections, or RFI/LFI!
October 8th, 2009 at 7:16 am
I was going to write a similar blog concerning this topic, you beat me to it. You did a nice job!
October 10th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
I was lucky enough to find your website through google. I have been searching all day for this information, Thank You.
October 12th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
Nice blog! Can’t wait to start my own blog.
October 13th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
I don’t usually post but I enjoyed your blog a lot.
October 27th, 2009 at 10:47 am
I wrote a similar article about this subject but you did a better job