Category: WordPress Hardening
About Hardening Features
The newest addition to Really Simple SSL is hardening features. These features will tackle the known and lesser-known weaknesses when running a WordPress website. Hardening features are focused on minimizing risk by removing points of attack. Mostly in disabling features that are not used or limiting access to those who use them. For more information on Hardening Features for WordPress, please read this article. Hardening Features Most of these hardening features are self-explanatory, but we will pick some to explain
What are Secure Cookies?
HTTP cookies are small packets of data stored in your browser. This data may contain sensitive data like passwords or user information and is therefore vulnerable for attacks. To limit vulnerability you can ‘secure’ your cookies by adding specific attributes to the set cookies, making it harder to manipulate by outsiders. Really Simple SSL uses the HttpOnly, secure and use_only_cookies parameters to make cookies more secure. Since Really Simple SSL helps you in securing your website by switching your site to