If your using WordPress to manage your site, you’ve got an additional layer of security that can be implemented for login security and that is to use whats called 2 factor authentication. Basically this combines your username and password (first factor) with your...
For those of you that have heard any mention of the SSL Heartbleed vulnerability in the news this week, Mashable has put together a list of sites that are possibly affected and which ones are not so that you can change passwords accordingly. For those of you running...
WordPress 3.7.1 has been released and the 3.7 release set (currently at 3.7.1) includes some great new features for WordPress customers. While maintaining your website on the most up-to-date release is a good security precaution, v3.7 brings three new features for end...
Earlier this week we noticed a large uptick in Brute Force attempts on our hosted WordPress sites. Upon further review and discussions with our datacenter's NOC team, we've noticed that we are not alone in this. Virtually every hosting provider has been affected...
With WordPress dominating the market with approximately %55 of the CMS implementations, its a common platform for clients to transition to. Being an open source platform allows the community to provide upgraded features and bug fixes for the product. As these security...
Protecting your images on the web has been a hotly debated topic since photographers and graphic artists started using the Internet many, many years ago. Some people try to protect against right-click, others smother obnoxious watermarks on their images, while still...
It's been reported (although not yet confirmed) that 6.5 million passwords were stolen from LinkedIn and posted on a Russian hacker site in the last day or so. Even if it isn't true, you should change your password form time to time to keep it secure and this is a...
In a recent case, an Austrian law student requested a copy of all of his data on Facebook (friends, posts, chat logs, etc) and found that Facebook had retained much of the data that he had deleted in the past. That means that it’s very likely that what you put on...
-Pulled from The Huffingtonpost.com (Full story here) The recent hack of the website RockYou exposed around 32 million user passwords, which data security firm Imperva has analyzed to create a list of the worst passwords. Want to know what terms to avoid? Here...
Lately we have been receiving a lot of complaints on increased spam in email boxes so we thought now would be a great time to give some suggestions to minimize the spam hit. If you do not have a spam assassin on your email account already talk to your hosting provider...