Tag: Security

  • Using SSL with MySQL

    If you ever make remote connections to a MySQL database, it’s extremely important to connect over SSL. Otherwise, you run the risk of someone seeing data in transit, modifying data in transit, or, worst of all, stealing your credentials. This could be an utter disaster. Unfortunately, getting MySQL to use SSL is kind of complicated. Here’s how…

  • A good reminder: Hackers are out there

    A site I occasionally help out with was on the receiving end of a brute-force attack today. Nothing subtle about it: a single IP address in Europe sent nearly 50,000 attempts to log in using a single user account. Hackers are out there, people, and they are persistent. For securing WordPress sites, I highly recommend…