Comments on: Secure Your Wordpress Blog with a Single Line of Code

By: Dulcenegosyante

Dulcenegosyante — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:40:40 +0000

You may want also to include these tips in securing your WP blog.

By: iceman9

iceman9 — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:17:22 +0000

@ lyle

the davaobloggers.com seems to be parked? ill have to remind red, hes on honeymoon newly wed kasi eh.. heheh

By: Lyle

Lyle — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:27:09 +0000

Hi RJ,

Thanks for your comment. I agree with you that different readers will each have a different understanding of the incident. I also appreciate your taking time to explain the incident to my readers who, I’m sure, are users of Sulit.

Anyway, about the homepage, there’s a HOME link at the top of my blog that you can click. Yes, it would have been nice for the blog title to be clickable (my older blog was designed that way) but it’s one limitation that I will have to live with.

I hope to see more of your comments here. You see, I believe that even though we may disagree about certains things, it does not mean we can’t be friends.

It’s an honor to have you here. I admire the success that you achieved with Sulit.

By: RJ

RJ — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:40:04 +0000

Hi Lyle,

You are correct, it is a matter of perspective and not all readers have the same perspective as yours and I believe that the more missing details, the more chances of the differing perspective from different readers.

It is not your intention as you’ve said and I believe you. But the way you right it says otherwise given a different perspective. Also don’t expect every reader to click every link that they see. If they do, all bloggers and website owners will be multi-millionaires by now.

I am not here to force any updates and you might misunderstood this post. I am just answering your response to my initial post above.

Anyway, it will be great if your blog title “Thinking Out Loud” is clickable pointing to your homepage. I tried clicking it hoping to find your homepage to check other articles.

By: Miah

Miah — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:17:10 +0000

sa FTP gud nako giupload ang kato blank index.html… nangita man ko .htaccess can’t find it mao kato nalang ako gbuhat.. wer banda? hahaha… pcenxa na….

By: Lyle

Lyle — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:27:24 +0000

Miah, you can find your host’s .htaccess file in the directory where your wordpress blog is installed by logging in via an FTP client. Another way is to login to your cPanel. There’s an icon for .htaccess there.

By: Miah

Miah — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:20:48 +0000

down pa rin ang davaobloggers.com huhuhu… anyways, I’ve read about this on macuha’s site and made a post too, tintry ko din but ang gnawa ko mano2 ung paglagay ng blank index.html sa wpcontent ko hahaha… igno man gud ko ani mga butanga oi…

By: Lyle

Lyle — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:50:02 +0000

Thanks faust! I’ve been trying to visit your blog for weeks now. Is davaobloggers.com still down?

By: iceman9

iceman9 — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:28:33 +0000

wow! its great youve moved already.. cheers.. lyle.. great template too!!

By: Lyle

Lyle — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:55:38 +0000

Hi RJ, thanks for clarifying that up but I think it’s a matter of perspective. You see, the affected site was yours (SULIT) and not the domain registry (dot PH) although the security breach happened on their end.

I think it is still accurate to say that SULIT was hacked considering SULIT was the INTENDED target and ultimately the VICTIM of the attack. Otherwise, other .PH sites or dot PH itself would have been redirected too. But the hacking incident remains isolated to SULIT.

The article was not intended to question or cast the security practices of SULIT in a bad light. The mention of the SULIT incident was to emphasize the importance of site security (Domains included). Moreover, the word HACKED on the article is linked directly to your forum thread where a complete explanation is posted.