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Removing the “admin” vulnerability from your WordPress website

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Here are instructions for securing your WordPress website—to remove the “admin” user which is currently the target of botnet hacker attacks.

(More information on the attack is below the video).

Basically a large network of “zombie”, or “botnet” computers is being used to find WordPress sites, and then try thousands of passwords to gain access as the “admin” user. Now, since the default setting for all WordPress sites is to have an “admin” user, this attack is going to affect a lot of people.

WordPress has been attacked by a botnet of “tens of thousands” of individual computers since last week, according to server hosters Cloudflare and Hostgator.

The botnet targets WordPress users with the username “admin”, trying thousands of possible passwords.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22152296

Drop box URL shortening

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Just a very quick tip. Dropbox is a useful tool for sharing large files, I use it with my client’s quite a bit.

One thing I do not like is the length of the URL it gives you to share, they can be longer than the average length of a line of email text, spaces in file names become %20, and honestly long URL links are just plain ugly.

Fortunately, Dropbox creates shortened URLs for you, they just don’t show you where they are! Basically if you opt to share the file link via Twitter, you’ll see the short version, which you can email or share in other ways too.

Just to make it really clear, here’s a short video I made showing how it’s done.

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