Making a Stand Alone SQL Account
A very simple thing you can do to make your sites more secure is to use a separate SQL user for your web apps.
Tag: security
Phishing Games
The trick to not being Phished is to use your brain, pay attention, and when you get that hinky feeling, type in the URL manually.
Risk vs Transparency
The risk of keeping a public list of all ‘naughty WordPress plugins’ does not outweigh the benefits of having such a list.
WordPress, DSO and Permissions
DSO is my PHP flavor of choice, but it has strange issues with WordPress, necessitating in permissions more open than I like. Thankfully there’s a fix!
Request: Multiple Domains, One IP SSL Certificates
This is actually a request. The server that runs Ipstenu.org hosts three other domains. I set up my self signed certificate just […]
SSL Self Certification and WordPress
Part of being a safe webadmin means protecting myself from myself. And finally, after years, I’ve gotten off my tush to make SSL work on my WordPress installs, for both single and multisite.