Hardening and securing WordPress websites is one of my specialties. We have reported previously on three of the best WordPress security plugins, Sucuri, Bulletproof, and WordFence. I can tell you that each of these plug-ins performed admirably against the continuous barrage of brute force and password reset attacks that my sites have endured. Security appeared to be strong, but I wanted more.
I have been deploying two-factor authentication (TFA) everywhere I can, in order to overcome the inherent weakness of password ...
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One of the easiest ways for an intruder to learn about you is through a compromised email account. And since most email is transmitted in the clear or in plain text, it is a simple thing for a bad actor to read intercepted email traffic. Encrypting your email makes it harder for criminals, competitors, law enforcement, and government spy agencies to read your email messages.
I very rarely will publish a news item or statistics, because we focus on discussing vulnerabilities, exploits, and countermeasures and leave the cyber news to others. This report is important enough I had to share it.
Two hundred and forty years ago a bunch of “terrorists” (one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter) signed the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and declared the founding of a new nation “conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
The Apple OSX platform has long held the cache of being invulnerable to attack. Cyber-criminals have be crafting more exploits to target Macs, iPhones, and iPads, especially since 2012. The reason for this, as explored in a recent article on 
Research shows that over 90% of network breaches happen when an employee falls prey to a phishing email, clicking on the offered link or opening a file attachment, becoming infected with a remote access Trojan, and creating an entry point for the attacker. If only we could get people to stop falling for phishing emails!
Using copy and paste to save text from websites is something all of us commonly do. Nothing could be simpler, right? Highlight your text, then <ctrl> c, and <ctrl> v. It turns out that this can be dangerous.