Category Archives: Website Security

Google has released a site to help webmasters identity and fix hacked websites. The website provides information, videos, and steps to recover from a hack and to help make sure it does not happen again. Google.Com: Webmasters help for hacked sites Other Information: WordPress 3 – Developing Secure Sites: Lynda.Com Video Protect your WordPress Website [...]

Information Services is now offering Lynda.Com instructional videos free to the NU community. Simply click the link below and enter your myNEU credentials or go to http://lynda.northeastern.edu and enter your myNEU credentials. This course offers tips on how to secure your WordPress site including: Backing up and restoring your site Implementing strong passwords Fighting comment [...]

Many popular websites including those at Northeastern are created and managed with Joomla. Joomla is an open source content management system that allows those with little web programming experience to build elegant and complex websites. Installing Joomla is fast and easy; making it secure against web attacks takes some time and attention to detail. Why [...]

This message only applies to those who run and manage their own Apache and PHP Server. PHP has released updates to fix the CGI-based vulnerability (CVE-2012-2311) made public last week. This vulnerability only “affects certain CGI-based setups, mod_php and php-fpm are not vulnerable to this attack” The vulnerability would allow an attacker to view the [...]

WordPress is one of the leading website publishing platforms on the Internet and at Northeastern University. Preventing malware and adware from infecting your site is an important task that is made easier by keeping WordPress and plugins current with updates and security patches, using strong passwords, and removing unused plugins. The following presentation describes various [...]