Today we are going to take a deeper dive into the subject of website security. Web servers can be breached in a number of ways, but the most common is simply stealing your user ID and password, either through a clever spearphishing email, or an automated brute force password cracking program. The second most common way is through software vulnerabilities in the web site code itself that opens it up ...
As we have mentioned in previous postings, WordPress has become one of the world’s leading web design tools, with a 27% share of all web sites, and a 65% share of CMS or Content Management System type websites. Because it is an open source product that is free to use, it has become hugely popular. We have been designing in WordPress ourselves ...
Just a quick note to my WordPress pals – the latest update, WordPress 4.2.3, has an import fix for a cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that leaves your site vulnerable to attack. According to Sophos:
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WordPress has become an incredibly popular web design platform, and currently has about a 25% share of all web sites on the Internet. As an open-source software product that is free to download and use, with a great support and documentation through WordPress.org, and a huge, international development community providing an endless array of themes, plug-ins and widgets, it is ...
If you are running a WordPress site, please be aware that the popular site builder and blogging platform is a popular target of cyber-criminals. This is due to it’s popularity as a do-it-yourself design tool, and it’s ubiquity (about 20% of Internet sites are coded in WordPress), and the fact that many WordPress site managers do a poor job of keeping ...
This is our first post on the new platform. Mainly we are developing this site to provide a place for us to refocus our web presence on our new business specialty: computer, network, and web security. This will also let us combine our website and blog at one site. So eventually the posts at WyzGuys Tech Talk on Blogger will be imported to this site.
My friend and business associate Troy king of King Web Design will be providing ...
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