Removing Bad Bots .htaccess

Posted by Maxx on Friday Aug 27, 2010 in News, Security, WordPress | 0 comments

If you need to stop bad bots from scrapping your site, the best way to achieve this is to use .htaccess directives. Everyone, whether human or robot, must go through the .htaccess file. Some users use the robots.txt file to do this, but some bots just ignore it, even Google has been known to ignore the robots.txt file. Using the following rewrite conditions at...

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Hack Attack

Posted by Maxx on Wednesday Jul 7, 2010 in Security, WordPress | 0 comments

People with Internet and web experience of all levels have worked to make sure that their websites, web service accounts and browsers were as safe as they could be from computer hackers. However, the hackers practice an old baseball saying which goes, "If you want to be a success you have to hit 'em where they ain't." The weakness...

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