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A practical plugin audit for small US business websites covering ownership, updates, data access, performance, licensing, and recovery.
Remove common EXIF, GPS, and embedded text metadata from JPG, PNG, or WebP files, then verify the cleaned copy before sharing it.
Learn how to create a long, unique password or memorable random passphrase, estimate its strength, and store it safely without reusing secrets.
Respond to a suspected PHP website compromise with evidence preservation, containment, verified patching, trustworthy recovery and credential revocation.
Remove untrusted PHP object deserialization, define a bounded JSON contract and plan legacy migration without preserving an unsafe parser fallback.
Review PHP session ownership, cookie policy, identifier rotation, expiry and CSRF validation with an original token helper and practical integration checks.
Validate PHP uploads, bound file size, generate server-owned names and plan private storage and authorized downloads. Includes a focused validation helper.
Use PDO value parameters, fixed sorting and tenant authorization together. Review an original query example and a practical SQL security test matrix.
Understand what Composer audit, platform checks and PHP runtime updates each prove, then connect dependency evidence to the artifact actually deployed.
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A practical plugin audit for small US business websites covering ownership, updates, data access, performance, licensing, and recovery.
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