You’ve heard it time and again… use strong passwords… but how many of us put it into practice? We naturally want a password that we can remember. Hackers know that! Why Do Sites Get Hacked? The #1 reason WordPress sites get hacked is using ‘admin’ or ‘administrator’ as the username. Using the name of your […]
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I was talking with someone the other day about making changes on their website and I asked them who their hosting provider was. They answered, “I don’t know.” This is not an uncommon answer. Their site had been set up years ago and after a lot of digging, we finally found what we needed. Many
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Recently, Wordfence conducted a survey of the WordPress community to see what they know about hacked websites. The responses came from 1,605 who had at least one site hacked in the past year. Flagged Sites in Google Roughly half indicated Google had flagged their site was hacked or contained malicious content. Obviously, we can’t rely
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Security is not guaranteed, nor is it one and done. New ways to gain access to sites and cause havoc are discovered every day. So we need to be proactive. I recently read an article where Colette Chamberland, a Senior Security Analyst for Wordfence, was interviewed. She has some pretty interesting things to say. Getting
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Websites get hacked every day. In fact, thousands of websites get hacked every minute! That is both mind boggling and scary at the same time. So what do you do? Can you secure your WordPress website yourself? Sure you can. It takes time … time to learn how to do it and time to actually
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Why is security so important when all I’m doing is blogging? Who would care about my site? We hear stories all around us about sites getting hacked. Big sites. Not your site, right? Breaking in Can Be Devastating Let me tell you about George. He has a hobby site, viewed by people all over the
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Hack is a four letter word and four-letter words are bad, right? It depends. If you are on the computer much, or if you watch TV, you’ve heard the word or a form of it used frequently. So what is hacking? Is it always bad? Hack or hacking is often used to refer to a
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Has your site been blacklisted? Did you know that it could have been prevented by being proactive? We all get busy doing the day to day things that keep our businesses running. It’s really sad that there are people out there looking for such opportunities. We’ve covered quite a bit of information in recent posts
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I like to relate website security to securing your home because it’s something we can all relate to. We secure our home by locking our doors. We add a layer of security by installing a deadbolt and a home security system. The equivalent of this in a WordPress website is to use a security plugin,
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Did you know that your website is actually sitting on a computer somewhere? You’ve probably heard about this mysterious thing called the ‘cloud’ and that your data is stored ‘out there’ in cyberspace. The ‘cloud’ is actually a global system of interconnected computer networks that link several billion devices worldwide. Being a computer, it’s quite
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