http:\/\/wordpress.org\/development\/2009\/08\/2-8-4-security-release\/<\/a><\/p>\n Other considerations would be the requirements for running WordPress. You need wordpress itself (really?), apache, php, and mysql.<\/p>\n Oh yeah, doesn’t that look familiar to anyone of you computer geeks out there? LAMP. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n You can also use Microsoft IIS or lighttpd.<\/p>\n Visit here to find out the requirements:\u00a0http:\/\/wordpress.org\/about\/requirements\/<\/a><\/p>\n Also the WordPress administration page’s default authentication is over http which is clear text. So if I’m not careful and working on my website in a nefarious\/untrusted network I could have my website defaced or better yet, have a php proxy installed without my knowing.<\/p>\n One way to mend this issue is by using ssh and tunneling:<\/p>\n After doing this, I open my browser of choice and hope that it supports SOCKS under the proxy settings. Good ol’ loopback, you won’t judge me. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n You can achieve the same results with putty<\/a> , if you’re a Windows user. If you would like to know how to, \u00a0check out:<\/p>\n http:\/\/oldsite.precedence.co.uk\/nc\/putty.html<\/a><\/p>\n One caveat to consider, is that even though your http \/ https traffic will be encrypted over the tunnel, your DNS queries will still be viewable to anyone running a sniffer on the network.<\/p>\n I digress… anyways..<\/p>\n Before I simply just ran Apache and had a pretty static web page. By the way if you want to see my crappy old lay out feel free to visit:<\/p>\n http:\/\/zitstif.no-ip.org\/oldcrap\/<\/a><\/p>\n I will make a link to this as a reminder to myself of things I need to do better.<\/p>\n When I feel motivated and paranoid enough, I’m going to scrutinize over the source code for my website. As for now though, I’m not too concerned. By no means am I a high level target of any sort. I’m just some random person blogging to try to feel important, but realizing that I’m merely talking to myself.<\/p>\n More updates soon to come, along with tools that may or may not be useful to you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yet again, I’m back to having copious amounts of free time, so being the ‘Trying-to-be-productive’ person that I am, thought I would get back to updating my web server. I’ve converted over to WordPress due to the simplicity and not having to deal with html or php. Not that I don’t mind doing that, it’s … Continue reading I’m back to updating web server, not that anyone cares..<\/span> ssh -D 1234 blabla@zitstif.no-ip.org<\/pre>\n
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