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Basic PHP Security

May 8th, 2013

When it comes to PHP, some 99% of amateur sites and 60-70% of all sites use the professional scripting language called PHP. But is it safe to use PHP? Does the implementation of the language not have any gaps that are critical to the operation of our applications? But remember… (Continue)

Preventing Hacking Attempts With Apache .htaccess

Dec 19th, 2011

I used to see many URLs which directly looking just a hacking attempts by hackers. Hackers are hackers they may continue to do that but we can try to prevent such effort. So, I hope you have take all common security measures discussed at many places for securing WordPress site.… (Continue)

Facebook: How to Logout from all Logged in Devices ?

Nov 5th, 2011

Forgot to logout from somewhere! Do you want to logout from logged in devices you logged in yourself but now thinking of someone else may be using it! Well, Facebook has the facility to help you get detail about logged in devices and logout from those places if you wish… (Continue)

Intel Chip with Login Protection

Oct 31st, 2011

Intel chip can protect your login credential in websites. It is defense in depth. You will login with your regular login and password on a website then it will ask for if you want to go for Identity protection technology! If you agreed then it assign a unique number to… (Continue)

Facebook Security Issue: Save yourself from Bad Applications

Aug 13th, 2011

Facebook has many applications you might tempt to use. One such application is the application which claims to show how many visitor visiting to your profile. Control yourself from using these kind of application. Check on net before using any application or don’t use them.
Even after controlling yourself from… (Continue)

PHP and Mysql SQL Injection Example

Nov 12th, 2010

SQL injection is one very common attack on PHP application. Earlier PHP has magic_quotes_gpc() On by default but now after version 5.3 it will be deprecated. So, whatever security was available due to magic quotes will go after PHP version 5.3. For the attack, attacker need to know a little… (Continue)

PHP Security – Few Concerns

Nov 1st, 2010

Here are few concerns we should take into consideration when developing application using PHP.
Error reporting:
Error reporting can be useful to help us avoiding very common security mistake that add vulnerabilities to PHP applications. On production website, display error will be set to Off and we as developer do… (Continue)

Google Redirect Virus Causing Google Result Redirected

Oct 25th, 2010

I faced security problem in my system. It has given a tough time for 2 days. I have a licensed version of McAfee Anti-Virus, but still I got infected with Google redirect virus. The virus was affecting the search result. So, when I have searched anything in Google and on… (Continue)

Solution to WordPress Blank Web Pages without error Display

Jul 25th, 2010

Are you getting blank pages on WordPress without any error displaying on web browser? I got this error when I have deactivated the W3 Total Cache and with that removed subdomain used as cdn. Therefore, I have shifted all the media files to normal upload directly. In the process I… (Continue)

Few Security Plugins for WordPress

Nov 15th, 2009

Very less number of posts has been written for wordpress security. I was looking for making my wordpress installation more secure and found very little for WordPress security compared to other stuff on net.
I have tried “AskApache Password Protect” few days back, but it failed for some reason. I… (Continue)