How to secure your wordpress based website?

Securing your wordpress installation is the very first task that every webmaster or blogger should do before making your website public. With the advent of automatic scripts and other automatic tools, hacking has become a doodle. Even a 13 year old script kiddie can sit front of his computer and start hacking websites. To protect yourself from this here are the few tips that one can follow to make their wordpress based websites more secure.

RIM to stop manufacturing 16GB playbook

RIMs attempt to capture tablet with its playbook faced a serious blow when RIM decided to stop manufacturing 16 GB model of the playbook. The main reason for this move is contributed to the declining sales of their tablet playbook. Even after performing some serous price cuts, playbook fails to impress the end user, as they still prefer apps over hardware and thus prefers go with either iPad or an Android tablet which features much more apps than BB Playbook.

Galaxy S3 is now readily available in India

Now if you want to own this beast than you don’t have wait any longer, Galaxy S3 is now readily available at you local retail outlet and on online shopping website like Flipkart, Homeshop18. Priced at Rs. 38,990 on Flipkart, Galaxy S3 is the most premium and expensive offering from Samsung. Though you can get the same phone at around Rs. 37,500 from your local retail store if you know how to bargain.

LinkedIn hacked: Passwords of 6 plus million users leaked

As per the latest reports, professional social networking website LinkedIn.com gets hacked and the hackers responsible for this leaked the entire data on the Internet. The hackers are from Russia as per the reports and these hackers are inviting other hackers to crack the hacked passwords as they are in encrypted form.

How to block traffic to your website from a particular domain?

If you are getting a lot of traffic from a particular domain that it causes load on your hosting server and subsequently suspending of your hosting account by your host, than you can use this .htaccess code to block that particular domain. This trick need your server to be based on Apache or Litespeed. Here are the steps to block a particular domain:

Where to register .IN domains?

I usually prefer Godaddy as my domain registrar because of its coupons which substantially lowers the price of a given extension even .in. But the major problem with Godaddy is that it supports either PayPal or credit card for payments. Most of the Indians don’t have access to either of these options. I am also in the same category though i do have access to VCC facility from my bank.

Letsbuy is dead but what about refunds

Till now you all might be aware of the face that Flipkart completes the acquisition of Letsbuy and shutdown the website for good. But i am among the few unlucky ones who had ordered from Letsbuy just before its complete shutdown and surprisingly they accept the payment without any notice.

Samsung Galaxy S3 gets a price tag in India

Samsung’s much hyped next generation Galaxy smartphone S3 will be priced at around Rs. 38,900. Indian ecommerce giant Flipkart had already listed Galaxy S3 for pre-order at Rs. 38,900. We here at UB7 are definitely not happy with the price tag of this hyped phone.