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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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,…
It's bad enough when a customer writes a bad review of your business on Yelp. Piss off the wrong customer these days and they can do far worse. A restaurant (who shall remain nameless) had an unhappy customer. The customer…
The Red Hen restaurant has been in the news recently for refusing to serve President Trump's Press Secretary, Sarah Sanders. I googled them and discovered that they are the victim of what has become known as the Pharma Hack: If…