Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

I discovered a great site that will scan your website or blog for malware, exploits, and other nasty vermin: URL Void. It’s great! It’s free to use and it works well. In this age of profligate hacking, something like this is almost a requirement for any webmaster. I have heard numerous horror stories from my [...]

This probably comes as no surprise in this day and age: could you or would you be able to make a living, hacking software? I think it would be COOL! I do a little “hacking” from time to time. Now, I’m not trying to access bank records or anything like that at all- but I’ve [...]

There’s a very good post I found by Ruhani Rabin about How To Prevent Your WordPress From Being Hacked. It’s got excellent information that every blog writer should know. Here are a few relevant things: Rename the administrative account: You can do this in the MySQL command-line client with a command like View Code SQLupdate [...]

I’ve been hearing about more hacking attempts these days. The most notable was the attack on Sarah Palin and her Yahoo email account. That was disgusting, but it goes to show you how quickly and easily some things can be hacked. I try to make my passwords with a combination of numbers, letters, and symbols. [...]