While it’s still pretty early in it’s development, Blogsecurity.net has created a new security plugin for WordPress. This plugin works with their site to do a scan of your WordPress install to determine if there are any generic security issues present on your site. Right now it’s pretty basic, but it can quickly tell you a few common issues that might exist and direct you to how to fix them. The main page to get the plugin and read up on how it works is http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/tools/wp-scanner/. Remember though, once you use the scanner, go back and disable the plugin you installed on your site from your WordPress Plugins admin page, you don’t want to leave it active.

It’s strange how some blogs can be totally hammered by spammers, while others of the same popularity get off fairly easy. If you have a blog and want to allow comments but are getting overwhelming amounts of spam, even after using Akismet or other anti-spam measures, you might want to try the Bad Behavior plugin. Bad Behavior works by complimenting other spam solutions by looking at HOW spam is appearing and working to block the delivery part, so it should work very well no matter what else you are using. There are many versions out there for other systems also, so if you have a forum or other CMS website, you can use the same system on them and already know how it works.