Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.

World’s first and oldest cybercrime (1830) predates electrical telegraphy.  Read how two French bond traders hacked France’s military semaphore telegraph.

Forget VPNfilter – here’s BACKLASH, a networking hack from way, way back

With a name like BACKLASH, you might think this hack comes from the era of mechanical devices, with gears and pulleys. You’d be right!

A pair of ...

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Apple, cybersecurity, passwords, Web Design, Weekend Update, WordPress

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Advanced Website Security

Over the last couple of weeks we have been taking a deeper dive into website security.  If you have been using our articles to improve the security of your website, we are gratified.

Today we are adding some advanced security techniques to your defensive arsenal.  Many of these solutions are specific to WordPress websites, but there are some that apply more globally.  Some of these ideas may require some outside professional ...

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cybersecurity, Security, Web Design, WordPress

How Would You Know Your Website Has Been Hijacked?

Now that you understand why your website may have been hijacked, you want to know if your website has been hijacked.  Finding out your website has been hijacked is not necessarily easy. Sometimes site owners think they have been attacked, when it was something innocuous. But discovery of a hijack can happen a number of different ways, and many of them can be embarrassing.

  • Your web hosting provider informs you of a malicious infection or activity and takes your site offline.
  • Your ...
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cybersecurity, Web Design, WordPress

Why Would Someone Hijack My Website?

If you own a small business, you have a website.  Would you be surprised to learn that your site is a top target of cyber-criminals?  Most people believe their business is too small and insignificant to be interesting to attackers, but your website is valuable to them precisely because it is small.

What makes a small business website an attractive ...

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Computers and Internet, crypto-currency, cybersecurity, malware, passwords, Phishing, ransomware, Security, social engineering, Web Design, WordPress

When Web Bots Attack

When web bots attack, what websites are the most likely to targets?  We discussed automated attacks against websites last month.  Here is some new information from Distil Networks about who the main targets have been in the recent past. If your business is included in the following list, you may want to ramp up the security posture of your website and web hosting account.

The industries ...

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botnet, Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, Identity Theft, Web Design, WordPress

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