540 posts tagged Wordpress Security

As you may have read, I’ve had an interesting week. I got a reminder of the way big companies operate. It’s not a pretty sight. I have also gotten an education in how McAfee’s SiteAdvisor works thanks to Yahoo’s new SearchScan. To cut to the chase, SiteAdvisor has some serious flaws.

Posted by Jeff Chin, Product Manager …and that’s great news any way you say it. Language is one of the biggest challenges we have in making information universally accessible. As part of the machine translation team within Google Research, I’m happy to report we’ve been hard at work to overcome this challenge.

Posted by Nick Jakobi, Product Manager, YouTube When we first announced YouTube Insight, our free video analytics tool for YouTube, we were excited to see just how users, partners, and advertisers might creatively use information about the viewing trends of their videos.

This is the list of my favorite Wordpress Plugins. These are 10 plugins that I always use : Akismet Usually it’s already installed on new wordpress installation. You just need to get a Wordpress.com API keyand activate it. This plugin will learn about spam coming to your blog.

Posted by Andrew Schwerin, Software Engineer As we noted earlier, our Conference on Scalability is taking place in Seattle on Saturday, June 14. And now registration is open until June 6. We have some great talks lined up from industry and academia, covering everything from scalability of storage,

Martin McKeay has pointed out two new-to-me Wordpress security plug-ins. The first is an installation scanner that helps identify risky settings. The second is an automatic upgrade plug-in. Wordpress doesn't have the greatest security record in the world.

Even though referer spam isn’t something new to black hat SEOs, WordPress blogs seem to get hit pretty hard with referrer spam these days. Every time somebody clicks a link on a website, the browser sends the originating URL (the URL of the web page that hosts the link) to the target web server.

MySpace just won a $230 million judgment against Spamford Wallace and his partner Walter Rines for violations of CAN-SPAM and California anti-phishing laws, plus attorney fees. Ole Spamford was proud to be the Spam King and I’m sure he’ll find a way to show off now that he holds the record for the

I was on holidays when new release of WordPress 2.5.1 came out. And I wanted to upgrade immediately from 2.5.0. to new version. But I haven’t got computer with me and had just mobile phone (Nokia N95) with its browser. Anyhow, I decided to try automatic upgrade from mobile. I took the huge risk (I thought).

I released Unwakeable 1.5 last night. This means Unwakeable is 100% compatible with WordPress 2.5! The previous version of Unwakeable, 1.2.1, didn’t play so nicely with WordPress 2.5. Unwakeable 1.5 was built from the ground up using K2 r687 as a starting point.