Browsing the archives for the Security tag

Tips to survive the latest WordPress brute force attack

12 Apr, 2013 in Hosting, Scripting, Security, Technical Issues, Website by

In case you haven’t heard by now, WordPress sites around the world are under attack by a botnet that’s attempting to brute force it’s way into installations that have an active “admin” user. To say the least, it’s been causing me all kinds of grief for the last four days or so. It’s slowed down [...]

Just because Jakob says it doesn’t make it right (or smart)

29 Jun, 2009 in Accessibility, Computers, Security, Usability, Website by

In Jakob Nielsen’s June 23, 2009 Alertbox post entitled, “Stop Password Masking“, Mr. Neilsen makes the argument that it’s time to stop masking passwords (showing stars or bullets instead of the actual keystrokes) in web forms.  He argues two main points as to why this “archaic” practice should be discontinued: Password masking causes users to [...]