“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.” Friedrich Engels. Yes, starting tdot-blog.com November 2007 was my ounce of action and I am glad I did it. I have been regularly posting here. During this time I have learnd a lot and enjoyed your questions, comments, and  suggestions that I have received. I [...]

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Using your laptop in public could be risky, especially when you type passwords, check your bank, credit card account or type any sensitive information. I read about a study from a security research that shows keyboards were not safe when transmitting information. The study was conducted in Switzerland (School of Computer and Communication Sciences at [...]

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These days we each have multiple email accounts, some we use frequently and others not. Managing your email involves 2 parts, managing incoming and managing outgoing email. Let’s take a look at each. Incoming email: In my opinion, the easiest way to manage multiple email accounts, is to forward all email you receive to one [...]

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Unexpectedley WordPress released 2.6.3 today to fix a small vulnerability in a library that is used by the dashboard. If you don’t want to download the whole software package, you can just upgrade by downloading the 2 affected file from the wordpress site. ( click here for detail ) I personally don’t recommend downloading this [...]

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New WordPress version, 2.6.2, was released yesterday to mitigate a new attack called SQL Column Truncation. If you allow users to register, then you need to upgrade to 2.6.2. You might have heard of SQL injection, which is widely used by hackers. SQL Column Truncation is not widely used however. A malicious user can create [...]

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I updated my ebook over the weekend by adding a couple more chapters and feedback received from previous readers. In every wordpress release of the software, functionality is added to better secure it. However there are steps you need to take in order for your installation to be  more secure. Steps as tightening permissions, naming [...]

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I lately purchased a new laptop.  It’s a windows vista and took me quiet some time to install all the software I need to keep me going. I can’t believe how useful it is in making me what I need to get done and yet it is free. Here is my list: Firefox  I started [...]

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There may be times when you experience your web site is not loading or you just can not access your site from your browser for any reason. I usually go through some steps to troubleshoot the issue. I am assuming that you have an internet connection and you can access other sites. If you can [...]

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WordPress 2.6 introduced a new security feature for handling SSL, however it seems to be still buggy. By adding a simple command to your config.php file to force SSL when loging in, should force the software to use SSL. I wasn’t able to get it working, and found out that wordpress SSL implementation will still [...]

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