security

Installing Linux Malware Detect on a CentOS 6 VPS

As a prelude to my upcoming WordPress Sydney meetup talk on WordPress Security I’m going to show you how you can beef up security on your Virtual Private Server (VPS) by installing a piece of software called Linux Malware Detect or LMD.

TimThumb is Evil

Timthumb is Evil

More and more WordPress websites are being hacked through exploiting the timthumb.php script. The script is evil and needs to be removed from all websites.