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If you're run­ning a Word­Press blog or web­site on your own domain, as with any web­site, there are poten­tial secu­rity risks. As the web­site owner, it's your respon­si­bil­ity to secure your website.

On Wednes­day, Feb­ru­ary 24, 2010, I'm giv­ing a Word­Press Secu­rity Webi­nar where I will give you six valu­able tips you can start using now to help secure your web­site. It's starts 9pm East­ern Time (6pm Pacific, 7pm Moun­tain or 8pm Cen­tral time).

With all your hard work and the time you've spent cre­at­ing con­tent, don't let your­self be the next vic­tim of cyber crime.

Hurry, space is lim­ited. You don't want to miss it!

For more infor­ma­tion and to reg­is­ter, click here.

There have been some issues recently from peo­ple I know receiv­ing a 403 Error when try­ing to access Word­Press self-hosted websites.

After some research, I col­lected the fol­low­ing infor­ma­tion for you just in case you run into this issue.

This is what the error may look like:

Error 403
We're sorry, but we could not ful­fill your request for / on this server.

You do not have per­mis­sion to access this server. Before try­ing again, run anti-virus and anti-spyware soft­ware and remove any viruses and spy­ware from your computer.

Your tech­ni­cal sup­port key is: 1872-ff63-2b02-1b1f

You can use this key to fix this prob­lem yourself.

If you are unable to fix the prob­lem your­self, please con­tact [SITE OWNER] at [SITE EMAIL] and be sure to pro­vide the tech­ni­cal sup­port key shown above.

What does it mean? Well, here's the answer…

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If you're run­ning a self-hosted Word­Press web­site, one thing you can­not over­look is keep­ing it secure. Just installing Word­Press, adding some plu­g­ins and writ­ing some con­tent isn't going to cut it.

If you're look­ing for ways to keep bad hack­ers out of your Word­Press site, then my newly released mini-guide can help.

I will show you 15 dif­fer­ent things you must do to your Word­Press site to help secure it now.

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"15 Tips for Word­Press Secu­rity"
How to help pro­tect your self-hosted
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by Regina Smola

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