Recover a Lost WordPress Password
Recently I had a client contact me and tell me they lost their WordPress password and couldn’t get into their account. I guess they had the wrong email in there and couldn’t use the ‘Lost Password’ feature either. Luckily, there’s a ‘not too difficult’ method for resetting your password (or more than likely your favorite client’s password).
I’m going to be using cPanel and PHPMyAdmin for this, but you should be able to do it with whatever system your host is using to allow you to manage your DB’s.
- Login to cPanel and look for phpMyAdmin
- Look for your database to the blog you forgot the password to on the left hand side
- Look for the ‘wp_users’ table and click the ‘Browse’ button
- Find your username/user ID and click the edit button next to it
Using Truecrypt to Encrypt Your Entire Hard Drive
If you’re as paranoid as I am, you more than likely appreciate the advancements that the TrueCrypt team has made with version 5.0. For me, the greatest thing they did was making whole disk encryption dead simple. Here’s how you do it.
Getting Started
- First you will need to visit the TrueCrypt site and download and install it on your system. I’m going to be using Windows XP for my demonstration, but they have since released very good and stable version for Mac OSX and Linux.
- Next, go ahead and open the main window by clicking on the TrueCrypt logo in the system tray. The window should look like this
Setting Up the Encryption Settings
- Click the the ‘Create Volume ‘ button
- On the next window, choose the radio button next to ‘Encrypt the system partition or entire system drive ‘
RUBotted?
If for some reason you think your computer has been compromised by a botnet, Trend Micro has a slick tool call RUBotted. It’s small, lightweight and simple to use. Here’s how to do it.
- Download RUBotted here
- Run the installer
- You should now see the icon in your systray
- If you left the box checked to run the program, you will see the following screen
- If all is well, you now see this screen
That’s about it. you can leave this thing running in your systray to constantly monitor your computer, but if your careful on the internet you shouldn’t need to have it running all the time. It should also be noted that this is in beta so if it crashes, don’t be surprised.
