Secunia offer a free personal edition of their PSI software. This software checks all the software on your computer and checks that you have the latest patched version installed.
This saves you going through each program to see if there is an update for it. It is not a virus scanner or security product but it [...]
The most common excuse I can find for not upgrading is that it breaks plugins. Sorry but security is more important than playing a YouTube video. This blog has gone from V6 of Wordpress all the way up to 2.8.4 when a plugin broke (once) I fixed it.
Now the wordpress team cannot test every single [...]
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/08/kaspersky_compromise_report/
I am only surmising from the limited information I can see here that ModSecurity would have protected them? Comments on this one welcome…
Rule 959001 does seem to cover the “SelECT” part of the URL in the screen shots but when I try a random url with this string in it on my website [...]