Posts Tagged "security"

Key Differences Between Validation and Sanitization

VIP Services developer Daniel Bachhuber shares some tips on writing better code for your WordPress site: Your code works, but is it safe? When writing code for a high-profile environment, you’ll need to be extra cautious of how you handle data coming into WordPress and how it’s presented to the end user. This commonly comes (Read more...)

Key Differences Between Validation and Sanitization

VIP Services developer Daniel Bachhuber shares some tips on writing better code for your WordPress site: Your code works, but is it safe? When writing code for a high-profile environment, you’ll need to be extra cautious of how you handle data coming into WordPress and how it’s presented to the end user. This commonly comes (Read more...)

Naked Security Joins WordPress.com VIP

The wildly popular and informative Naked Security blog from the leading IT security firm Sophos, recently launched in our WordPress.com VIP program: The mission of the blog is to highlight “various news, opinion, advice and research on computer security issues and the latest internet threats.” Just this past November, the Naked Security team was bestowed (Read more...)

VaultPress: First Golden Tickets

Very exciting news that invites to VaultPress — a subscription-based protection, security and backup service for WordPress blogs and sites — are now starting to be sent out. Over the weekend we started to trickle out the first Golden Ticket invites to VaultPress. This means that if you’re on the list you now have a (Read more...)