A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Great story about dealing with creative content pirates on the Internet.
Great article from the Smithsonian takes a look ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Saint Patrick’s Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick is a cultural and religious celebration held on 17 March, the traditional death date of Saint Patrick (c. AD 385–461), the foremost patron saint of Ireland.
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If you are “monetizing” your website using any of certain Google-banned advertising types, you will need to rethink your strategy and use approved advertising types only. Otherwise you run the risk of the Wrath of Google, and will see your advertising revenue drop along with your page rank.
Starting in mid-February, the most recent version of Google’s Chrome web browser proactively blocks certain ...
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Bots are alive, well, and busy on the Internet, making up nearly half of Internet traffic. Bad bots are used by cyber-criminals and cyber attackers to automate harmful exploits and attacks, such as denial of service attacks, crypto-coin mining, data mining, information exfilitration, account hijacking, vulnerability scanning, spamming, and other illegal or illicit activities.
Not all bots are bad. Some of these site visitors are helpful, such as the automated bots ...
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When you see the secure HTTPS protocol at the beginning of a web address, or see the green “secure site” padlock symbol, does this mean that the site is safe? Unfortunately, the answer is NO. There is some confusion among computer users about what HTTPS really means. This confusion is being exploited by cyber-criminals running phishing exploits.
HTTPS or secure hypertext ...
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We’ve all seen this on National Geographic. A lion, tiger, or other top predator hides near a water hole and waits for some sort of four-legged lunch to stop by for a drink. Cyber-criminals and other attackers are using a similar technique to download and install malware from niche or industry specific websites to computer systems at targeted businesses. Here’s ...
The rare Tuesday post, but this couldn’t wait. If you are running a WordPress site, you need to know this. This was just released by WordFence.
Continue Reading →“Early this morning our team was woken up by systems alerts letting us know that we needed to scale up our attack logging capacity. The number of WordPress attacks we were monitoring per hour ...
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.11/16/2017 04:52 PM EST Original release date: November 16, 2017
The Internet of Things refers to any object or device that sends and receives data automatically through the Internet. This rapidly expanding set of “things” includes tags (also known as labels or chips that automatically track objects), sensors, and devices that interact with people and share ...
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Websites are a popular target for cyber-criminals, because they offer a platform for malicious activity. A hijacked website can be used for hosting malware downloads or phishing landing pages. Personal information stored in a website database about site users, including user names and passwords and other personal information can be extracted, decrypted, and sold on the Dark Web.
I have devoted many articles to properly securing WordPress websites. Now there is ...
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There is more bad news for WordPress website owners and developers. WordFence has found more instances of popular plug-ins being modified to contain malicious software. The three most recent discoveries are:
WordFence had reported earlier about another ...
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