I have seen the question many times about how to obtain your iTunes Linkshare affiliate ID using the Linkshare web interface. Part of the problem appears to be that there is some confusion about generating the iTunes product links using the LinkShare web interface. Below is a quick step by step guide about how to generate iTunes products affiliate links using the LinkShare web interface. Also once you have generated one link automatically using the LinkShare web interface I will explain how to extract your iTunes affiliate ID so you could manually build the links in the future.

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This is going to be a little bit of a different style post then we usually do on Question-Defense.  I have been completely amazed lately at the amount of unsecured web interfaces on the Internet  and I figure another post cant hurt. I am assuming every one knows that when you buy a new piece of hardware you need to change the default user name and password.  “well of course I know that” most people would say. Well how about we do a little recon and see if that is really true.

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There are many tricks or little configuration items you can use to make your WordPress powered site more secure than it comes by the default install. One of those items is to require the login to happen over HTTPS and require that all WordPress admin traffic takes place over HTTPS as well. I personally also use a plugin called WP Block Admin to only allow users with certain credentials access to wp-admin so consider looking into that as well if you have areas of your site that are not in the admin section that require users to login like a forum or to leave comments.

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I have been using the iPhone Analytics App available via the iTunes App Store for quite some time. It allows you to view all of the sites you have configured in Google Analytics in a very clean interface on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Recently when logging in I have been getting an error that my username and password are incorrect. The issue appears to be that Google recently modified the way others can access the web analytics data and have now provided a new API so the developers have mentioned that they are completely rewriting the application and will launch a new version in 2 to 3 weeks. The developers also have offered a refund to anyone asking though I would suggest everyone to hold on as they are being up front and they have the best Google Analytics application for the iPhone.

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The btmp log keeps track of failed login attempts. I have seen on a default linux setup with logrotate configured where the btmp log is left out of rotation and eventually grows out of hand. So first you want to make sure that the btmp log is rotated using logrotate with the below information.

Log Location:/var/log/btmp

To rotate the btmp log add the below to the logrotate.conf file located in the /etc directory.

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