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Bob Weiss | The WyzCo Group
Like most website owners, security is never at the top of our priorities. It’s only when someone we know gets hacked that we realize how common it is for websites to be compromised by malicious ...
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WordPress version 5 was released a month ago on December 6. There have already been some minor upgrades to fix some security issues. If your WordPress site is running any version of WordPress 4, you probably need to upgrade.
Before you upgrade your WordPress site to version 5, you need to take a look at the new page editor, code named “Gutenberg.” If ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.This entry was posted in Research, Wordfence, WordPress Security on December 5, 2018
The Defiant Threat Intelligence team recently began tracking the behavior of an organized brute force attack campaign against WordPress sites. This campaign has created a botnet of infected WordPress websites to perform its attacks, ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.
You do not have to give your passcode to the police. The courts say it amounts to self-incrimination. The government isn’t really after the password, after all; it’s after any potential evidence it protects. In other words: fishing expedition.
Today we are featuring a guest column written by Jann Chambers at UK Web Host Review.
If there is one thing that all website owners today need to be concerned about it is website security. This is especially the case if you take online payments for your products and services.
You only need to do a quick search online and you will ...
Continue Reading →Thanks to Toby Cryns for alerting me to this important update to WordPress. Unfortunately, not all updates are well received (2.5 out of 5 stars currently), and since Gutenberg is going to dramatically change the user interface, you may want to look into this before it’s too late. This is happening whether you like it or not, a la Windows 8 (remember ...
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.
One of my IT associates got an email that had one of her actual passwords in it, and threatened to reveal information unless she paid a ransom in Bitcoin. This seems to be getting a lot of traction, so beware. Do not pay the extortion demand. First, this is a scam. They ...
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According to Quora, “The term freelance (noun) was coined by Sir Walter Scott in Ivanhoe (1820). It literally stands for a free lance, signifying a medieval mercenary whose lance is currently not engaged in war and therefore free for being dispatched.” So if you are a freelancer, you are sort of a hired gun, like Richard Boone was as Paladin in the 1957-1963 TV series Have Gun ...
Bad actors are using compromised WordPress.com accounts and the popular Jetpack plugin to add a malicious plug-in of their own that turns compromised websites into a vehicle for perpetrating a fake tech support scam. Attackers are using stolen user names and passwords from other breaches and trying these credentials on WordPress.com to find accounts. They are even searching whois records for website domain names registered with the same email account as the stolen user name.
There has been a new WordPress vulnerability discovered that can give an attacker the ability to delete files on the web server and take control of your web site. This was reported on the WordFence blog on June 27th.
This vulnerability applies to anyone logged in to a WordPress website with user credentials of Author, Editor, or Administrator. These roles ...
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