It Happens to All Of Us
You are just about to head out the door for an important meeting and you say to yourself, "Let me take two minutes and update that plugin." You start to do so and BAM! The Server crashes. You do not…
2FA is a Pain in the you-know-what, but it is Worth It.
I enable 2-Factor Authentication on all my clients' websites. I use it in all my own personal websites. Admittedly, it is a pain to use: Midway through the login process I have to grab my iPhone, bring up the Google…
Keeping Tabs On Your Plugins
We all know to check our plugins to see if there are updates available. What if a vulnerability has been discovered in one of our plugins and it's author has not fixed it? Worse yet, what if the plugin…
Plugin Update Causes Error
It usually happens at the worst possible time: You are about to head out the door for a meeting and you think, "Ive got five minutes. That will give me enough time to log in to my website and bring…
2FA and Unique Password
Today Lifelock notified me that my identity information can be found on the dark web. The vendor in question suffered a data breach a few months ago. I was already aware of it and had already taken precautions. Fortunately: The…
Alternative to 2FA
2FA = 2 Factor Authentication Two Factor Authentication is commonly used (and recommended) to insure that no one but you can log in. I use it not only for my websites and my clients' websites. I have it turned on…
Top Attacker Countries
This information comes from the Wordfence blog. The top five attackers this month are in: Australia Germany USA Ukrain Finland This list is a little different from what we normally see. The attacks were: Scanning for vulnerabilities Downloading or uploading…
Old Malware Never Dies
Hackers are repurposing older Magento malware to use on WordPress/WooCommerce websites. Here is an excellent article about one such instance of this: https://blog.sucuri.net/2022/06/smilodon-credit-card-skimming-malware-shifts-to-wordpress.html Note that WebsiteOverwatch subscribers are protected from these sorts of attacks.
Your Customers’ Trust In You Is At Stake
A few days ago I received an email containing an invoice. I had never done business with the company, so it appears bogus. I tried to visit the company's website and got the above notice. This is how you lose…
WordPress Version 6.0 has been Released
WordPress version 6.0 was just released. I'm not going to go into the new features/functions here because you can read about that elsewhere. What I AM going to talk about is doing the update. 6.0 is considered a major release,…