Security

Securing WordPress

10 Jul 2013

I panicked quite a bit when I discovered someone had been repeatedly hitting  xmlrpc.php on my install of WordPress. I didn’t realize it was happening until my host alerted me that I was potentially going to exceed resources for the month. I wasn’t sure what the cause of the overage was initially, so I had to…

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Disable Javascript in Acrobat

30 Apr 2009

From the Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) blog: “All currently supported shipping versions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat (Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.1, 8.1.4, and 7.1.1 and earlier versions) are vulnerable to this issue. Adobe plans to provide updates for all supported versions for all platforms (Windows, Macintosh and Unix) to resolve this…

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