Bank account number and Sort Code in a form [closed]

This sounds like bad news. There are many technical and legal hurdles involved in collecting bank info online. It is easy to mess up. All SSL does is protect information in transit between a browser (person filling the form) and the server. Once it gets to the server you need to handle it properly. If … Read more

WordPress Hacks/Defacing [closed]

Even when WordPress is running version 3.1, sites are still being defaced. Even? There had been one major and five security releases since that version. If you are implying that 3.1 should be reasonably secure – it is not. but the only answer seems to be outdated WordPress sites What had you done to exclude … Read more

Is this a WordPress security bug?

You’re misinterpreting the is_admin() function. It’s not a tag to check whether or not the user is an admin, it’s a template tag to check if you’re on an admin page. From the Codex: This Conditional Tag checks if the Dashboard or the administration panel is being displayed. This is a boolean function, meaning it … Read more

Hata!: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'divattrend_liink'@'localhost' (using password: YES)