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Keeping your WordPress site safe and secure is a combination of technical and common sense best practices.

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The good guys seem to have the upper hand on spammers for the moment, but the spammers aren’t going without a fight.

The New York Times reports that the FTC is launching a new recommendation to create a “privacy cookie” similar to the cookies many retail and other websites use to track visitor preferences and behavior, but with a security profile in a universally readable format informing advertising networks about a user’s privacy preferences. The Digital Advertising [...]

“It doesn’t matter what they’re saying, as long as they’re talking about you.” Apparently that old saw isn’t just true, it’s profitable. A fascinating article on the front page of the Sunday Business section of the New York Times this weekend outlines how a shady character has exploited a weakness in Google’s search ranking rules [...]

Just when things quiet down on the privacy/security front, something else comes along. It seems that consumers are getting hip to the fact that they’re being watches, sometimes even after they’ve taken steps to keep from being watched. The New York Times is reporting that a number of lawsuits have been filed by consumers who [...]

This would be funnier if it weren’t so scary. (But it’s still pretty funny.) Google Responds To Privacy Concerns With Unsettlingly Specific Apology I’m fascinated with privacy issues, both online and off. We share things now that our parents wouldn’t have dreamed of sharing in the past. (Don’t you have an older relative who still  [...]

I logged in to MailChimp over the weekend to send an email newsletter for Rhinebeck Science Foundation, a non-profit on whose board I sit, and was greeted by a message from MailChimp about new security measures they’ll put in place soon that will require users to set up new passwords. More on the passwords in [...]

Online crime fell sharply in 2009, according to a survey of U.S. and Canadian online merchants conducted by CyberSource, the security firm. What’s even more interesting than the overall drop of 18% is that the drop came as online sales have grown. So fraud as a percentage of online sales revenue also continues to fall. [...]

Is Apple really that good at security? We’re about to find out. For ages, the “fan boys” who think Steve Jobs is a god and nothing that comes out of Apple is ever anything less than revolutionary, have delighted in tweaking Microsoft for any missteps the giant in Redmond might make. Included in those jibes [...]

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