So there has been this huge security hole found in Open SSL which means people could potentially have seen your username and password when you thought it was secure using https. Tom Scott explains the Heartbleed vulnerability very clearly here Now there has been lots & lots written about this, I’m adding to that big […]
WordPress installations under attack
I was checking my syslogs yesterday and I noticed a lot entries that started with the word ALERT and seemed to relate to someone or something trying to force their way in to some of my sites. Entries like: ALERT – tried to register forbidden variable ALERT – ASCII-NUL chars not allowed within request variables […]