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Google responds to Congress over privacy policy inquiries

2012-01-31/0 Comments/in Privacy/by SecurityOrb_Staff

Google has responded to Congress, defending its decision to make a controversial change to its privacy policy.

In a 13-page letter (document) to several Congress members, Google explained its decision for changing its privacy policy, and answered a host of questions posed by the lawmakers after the search giant announced its plans.

A List of Top WordPress Security Plugins by EUKHOST.com

2012-01-30/0 Comments/in Web Security/by SecurityOrb_Staff

The ratio of websites running on CMS’s can be assumed to be more than the custom designed sites built from scratch. Quite understandably, there are more number of users using WordPress than any other CMS, hence it becomes crucial to have enhanced security measures for your site. Due to a large volume of users using WordPress as a platform, an increasing number of hackers and fraudsters try to compromise the security of such sites. In majority of the instances sites running on WordPress are compromised due to outdated files and/or plug-ins. Such outdated versions of the associated scripts act as an easy meal for fraudsters.

Google responds to Congress over privacy policy inquiries

2012-01-31/0 Comments/in Privacy/by SecurityOrb_Staff

Google has responded to Congress, defending its decision to make a controversial change to its privacy policy.

A List of Top WordPress Security Plugins by EUKHOST.com

2012-01-30/0 Comments/in Web Security/by SecurityOrb_Staff

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Google responds to Congress over privacy policy inquiries

2012-01-31/0 Comments/in Privacy/by SecurityOrb_Staff

Interesting article on the Google privacy issues by Don Reisinger of CNET.com

Google has responded to Congress, defending its decision to make a controversial change to its privacy policy.

“Last week we heard from members of Congress about Google’s plans to update our privacy policies by consolidating them into a single document on March 1,” Google director of public policy Pablo Chavez wrote today in a blog post accompanying the letter. “Protecting people’s privacy is something we think about all day across the company, and we welcome discussions about our approach. We hope this letter, in which we respond to the members’ questions, clears up the confusion about these changes.”

Google announced plans to rewrite its privacy policy last week. The revision will give the company explicit rights to “combine personal information” across the many products and services it currently offers.

“We’re not collecting more data about you. Our new policy simply makes it clear that we use data to refine and improve your experience on Google–whichever products or services you use,” Google said at the time. “This is something we have already been doing for a long time. We’re making things simpler and we’re trying to be upfront about it. Period.”

Read the full article here.

A List of Top WordPress Security Plugins by EUKHOST.com

2012-01-30/0 Comments/in Web Security/by SecurityOrb_Staff

So what measures should an individual adopt to keep a WordPress installation safe and secure from being compromised ?
Primarily, it is crucial to have a latest version of WordPress. In-addition, there are couple of useful WordPress plug-ins that can help you safeguard your website hosted on an affordable web hosting server.

Top List of WordPress Plugins For Enhanced Security

BulletProof Security
Average Rating : 4.5 || Total Downloads : 143,241

This plugin in particular has been considered to be one of the reliable security plug-ins for WordPress. It helps in protecting a WordPress based site against XSS, RFI, CRLF, CSRF, Base64, Code Injection and SQL Injection hacking attempts. Moreover, it offers a single click .htaccess WordPress security protection.
The files that are protected with this plugin are wp-config.php, bb-config.php, php.ini, php5.ini, install.php and readme.html with .htaccess security protection. Moreover, it holds the capability to check DB errors off, file and folder permissions check.

6Scan Security
Average Rating : 4 || Total Downloads : 3,844

The plugin is claimed to offer protection against the SQL Injection, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Directory traversals, Remote file inclusion, including the one’s listed in OWASP Top Ten security vulnerabilities.
It has been developed in a way that there is no adverse effect on the site’s performance.

Ultimate Security Checker
Average Rating : 4 || Total Downloads : 35,851

This too similar to couple of other plugins seems to be quite appreciated by users. It a common scenario where a hacker manages to get access to the WordPress installations and delete the data it contains. The Ultimate Security Checker is capable of identifying security issues on your site. It scans the installation for known vulnerabilities and grades it accordingly. It suggests the vulnerabilities which you may either fix on your own or do it automatically.

Better WP Security
Average Rating : 4 || Total Downloads : 41,417

The plugin ensures that multiple security holes are patched without the need to bother about conflicting features. It comes with a built-in feature that bans troublesome bots, switches off the ability to login for a given time period, bans the users trying to login too many times with incorrect information and more importantly it enforces strong passwords for all accounts.

WP Plugin Security Check
Average Rating : 5 || Total Downloads : 4,168

It may at-times happen that due to an outdated security plugin a hacker manages to breach in, this plugin searches for plugins for bad practices and possible security holes limiting the risk of a compromised website.

Secure WordPress
Average Rating : 4 || Total Downloads : 611,889

This plugin removes the error information on login pages, adds index.html to plugin directories, hides the WordPress version (except from the admin area) hides the plugin-update information for non-admins, it blocks any bad queries that pose harm to your WordPress installation.

WP DB Backup
Average Rating : 4 || Total Downloads : 1,238,595

We all are aware about the importance of website backup, this plugin allow users backup the core WordPress database tables with minimum clicks. Looking at the number of downloads one can imagine its popularity amongst webmasters.