Justin had written up a previous article with a few quick ways to secure your WordPress blog and he's come back with a few more helpful hints on how to keep you and your blog safe.

The following is a list of some additional changes that you can make to improve the security of your wordpress installation (Backup wp-config.php and your db tables before trying the following).

Here's his new list of recommendations:

• Change the default table prefix
• Install WP-Scanner
• Change permissions on the WordPress to only be writable by you and root