Anyone who has a Wordpress site may have been hacked at one point in time or another. A hack may happen regardless of how diligent you are, but what can we do to help us identify attacks before they occur and what can we do to secure the Wordpress environment. I found some very helpful tools while perusing the internet for Wordpress exploits and solutions. The following are what I have discovered as extremely useful, there are some rules if you been hacked, and then some tools you can use to find future attacks easier as well as prevent them.

I use a 90-95% virtualized environment and here is a brief update of how I integrated my Mac Book pro into this environment. Specifically about printing. Some notes first:

Print Server: Windows 2008 R2 running as a VM

Printer connected to a Belkin FL5009 USB over IP devices

This configuration seems fairly straight forward, but since I use passwords and heightened security…

I get tons or email and quite a bit of it is SPAM these days. To combat this I use MailScanner with Postfix, ClamAV, and SpamAssassin. I also setup special mailboxs on all email accounts specifically so that the users can classify mail as either SPAM or if necessary as HAM. Once a week or so a process runs to learn from the SPAM folders. I thought that process was working quite well. It turns out I made a simple goof that has kept my SpamAssassin Bayesian Filter from being able to read my Bayesian database.

Well, as time permits I have been slowly upgrading my VMs to the latest virtual hardware. When I started this process, it was before VMware instituted a warning within the Upgrade Virtual Hardware that you first need to upgrade VMware Tools. This problem bit me twice and it was enough that I put in my own policy to always upgrade VMware Tools BEFORE upgrading the Virtual Hardware.