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Monitoring Your Wordpress Administrator User List

Overview
Many Wordpress attacks will create a backdoor Wordpress account that has administrative privileges. One way to tell if your Wordpress instance has been compromised is to check for the presence of an administrator account that you did not add.
The latest Wordpress worm, as described in Matt Mullenweg’s recent post titled How to Keep WordPress Secure, [...]

Wiping hard drives – DBAN – Darik’s Boot And Nuke

I recently went on a quest to find a tool to wipe four hard drives in some machines at work. I hadn’t wiped a drive in years, and was pleasantly surprised to get more than one suggestion for DBAN, or Darik’s Boot and Nuke.
From http://www.dban.org/:

Darik’s Boot and Nuke (“DBAN”) is a self-contained boot disk that [...]

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