I was recently alerted by a client about a hack that was a result of running WordPress version 4.7. This particular instance was a pretty harmless hack, which was identified as a defacement (MW:DEFACED:01) "generally done for fun, political reasons…
Modern "brute-force password crackers" can crack a password of 8 or less characters in less than 4 hours, but 12 or more characters takes years to crack. So length over complexity is far better for creating secure passwords. Even simple…
I wanted to write a simple Captcha that I could easily integrate into my own scripts that would work with or without Javascript. My first approach was to find open-source that I could pretty much just copy and paste into…