7 03, 2016

Secure the Battlements!

2016-12-11T16:09:17-08:00

Do you use custom post types in your WordPress site? You may have some fixin’ to do…

Security experts just found a breach in which hackers manipulated a common WordPress plugin to do “bad things” (I’m leaving out the jargon) to your site.

What’s so special or unusual about this announcement? The type of hack. Most security breaches begin as brute force attacks – all those attempts to gain entry to your site via the “admin” […]

Secure the Battlements!2016-12-11T16:09:17-08:00
19 02, 2016

My Site Has No E-Commerce, Why Do I Need Security?

2016-12-11T16:09:17-08:00

In the past week, President Obama has implored Americans to use greater security measures to access their online accounts and the Justice Department has demanded that Apple craft a one-time backdoor program to access terrorists’ iPhones. So digital security, in a variety of circumstances, has been at the fore.

In fact, one of my favorite WordPress plug-ins, Wordfence, sent out an attention-grabbing headline recently in their blog: “6 Million Password Attacks in 16 Hours and […]

My Site Has No E-Commerce, Why Do I Need Security?2016-12-11T16:09:17-08:00
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