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Plugins: Got a Scare for Ya Today, People

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Did you know that your blog can be hacked via your plugins folder? I had no idea. I write, not hack.

But here’s a cool post from  Deep Jive Interests, where they say:

If you’re running Wordpress, unless you’ve already locked down your Wp-content folder with some .htaccess fixes, you may not notice that your Wp-content/plugins folder is naked and bare to the world.  That is, navigate to http://www.yourblogname.com/wp-content/plugins and you may find a directory listing of your plugins folder, files and all.  How do you fix it?  Easy.  Just upload an empty index.html into the wp-content/plugins folder and its all fixed.

Well, thank you, Deep Jive! Really hard to do, eh? I don’t want my plugins folder or anything else about me naked in public.

Get ‘er done!

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