The Freemius Wake-Up Call Why Your WordPress Plumbing Matters
Verify Your Site Protection Now ↓ I spend a lot of mornings staring at ruined WordPress databases over my first cup of coffee. You get used to seeing the obvious break-ins. A weak admin password. An abandoned slider plugin. But the Freemius SDK issue caught my eye because the threat was hiding in "the walls." It was buried in the ...
The Silent World of WordPress Post Updates | And How to Fix It!
Have you ever noticed how quiet WordPress can be? You update a post, hit Publish, and then… nothing. No alert. No “Hey team, I made a change.” Just silence. That’s how WordPress works out of the box. It doesn’t tell anyone when something is updated. That might have worked back when one person ran a site, but not now. If ...
WordPress Security Briefing August 2025
What you’ll discover in this WordPress Security Briefing August 2025 | Critical Threats & How to Protect Your Site Video: • The 9.8 WordPress vulnerability explained. • Real‑world hack examples. • Why plugins & themes are the #1 weakness. • Hacker tactics: SQL injections, crypto‑mining, ransomware. • Building a proactive defense: hosting, WAF, MFA, backups. • Why security is an ...
The Hack Repair Guy’s Plugin Archiver Support and Updates
Over ten years ago, I produced the plugin, "The Hack Repair Guy's Plugin Archiver." https://wordpress.org/plugins/hackrepair-plugin-archiver/ The plugin remains strong and, in my opinion, is one of the best hidden gems in the WordPress ecosystem. The archival features within The Hack Repair Guy's Plugin Archiver should have been implemented in WordPress years ago. I've kept the plugin alive ever since. Now, ...
Wi‑Fi City Searcher by HackRepair.com
🔍 Meet “Wi‑Fi City Searcher” by HackRepair.com Your friendly GPT sidekick for discovering secure, public Wi‑Fi spots—no guesswork involved. ✨ Whether you’re hunting for a reliable café connection or a quiet library corner, this GPT delivers. It scans official networks across the city and gives you instant details: SSID, captive portal requirements, noise level, outlets, and more. If you are connecting ...
Google Is Indexing Your Private ChatGPT Conversations
Google indexed thousands of shared ChatGPT chats, some with private info! Why That’s a Problem? Imagine writing a private journal and sticking it on your front porch, thinking no one would ever read it. Now imagine Google rolling by, scooping it up, and filing it neatly under your name. That’s what just happened. A simple share became searchable? Yes, it's ...
No, 16 Billion Leaked Credentials Doesn’t Mean You Were Just Hacked
By Jim Walker, The Hack Repair Guy. Visit original article: on Reddit You may have seen the headlines. Another "Mother of All Breaches!" splashed across your screen, warning of 16 billion stolen credentials floating around the internet. Let's pause a second. This is not a new data breach. Nobody just broke into 10,000 websites overnight. And your favorite shopping site ...
What can you say when as many as 90 million Facebook accounts may have been hacked?
"Hmm..." "On the afternoon of Tuesday, September 25, our engineering team discovered a security issue affecting almost 50 million accounts. We’re taking this incredibly seriously and wanted to let everyone know what’s happened and the immediate action we’ve taken to protect people’s security." https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/09/security-update/ +++ Why should I care? The hackers responsible for this attack took ...
Massive denial of service campaigns going on – “You’ve been Memcrashed!”
There is some massive denial of service campaigns going on this week, and potentially even bigger ones on the horizon due to there being a large number of misconfigured memcached servers (the majority being hosted through Digital Ocean and other cloud providers). A quote fromBy Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, "The result is an attack that can take down pretty much any server ...
Google 62 is out but the “Not Secure” warning is missing?
For months I've been warning about the upcoming “Not Secure” warning coming to Google's web browser in October. Well, it's October 2017, Google Chrome version 62 has been released but the heavily forewarned “Not Secure” warning appears to have gone AWOL. In theory, when you visit a non-https web page that includes a form of any sort, a “Not Secure” warning should appear like ...
The Freemius Wake-Up Call Why Your WordPress Plumbing Matters
Verify Your Site Protection Now ↓ I spend a lot of mornings staring at ruined WordPress databases over my first cup of coffee. You get used to seeing the obvious break-ins. A weak admin password. An abandoned slider plugin. But the Freemius SDK issue caught my eye because the threat was hiding in "the walls." It was buried in the ...
The Silent World of WordPress Post Updates | And How to Fix It!
Have you ever noticed how quiet WordPress can be? You update a post, hit Publish, and then… nothing. No alert. No “Hey team, I made a change.” Just silence. That’s how WordPress works out of the box. It doesn’t tell anyone when something is updated. That might have worked back when one person ran a site, but not now. If ...
WordPress Security Briefing August 2025
What you’ll discover in this WordPress Security Briefing August 2025 | Critical Threats & How to Protect Your Site Video: • The 9.8 WordPress vulnerability explained. • Real‑world hack examples. • Why plugins & themes are the #1 weakness. • Hacker tactics: SQL injections, crypto‑mining, ransomware. • Building a proactive defense: hosting, WAF, MFA, backups. • Why security is an ...
The Hack Repair Guy’s Plugin Archiver Support and Updates
Over ten years ago, I produced the plugin, "The Hack Repair Guy's Plugin Archiver." https://wordpress.org/plugins/hackrepair-plugin-archiver/ The plugin remains strong and, in my opinion, is one of the best hidden gems in the WordPress ecosystem. The archival features within The Hack Repair Guy's Plugin Archiver should have been implemented in WordPress years ago. I've kept the plugin alive ever since. Now, ...
Wi‑Fi City Searcher by HackRepair.com
🔍 Meet “Wi‑Fi City Searcher” by HackRepair.com Your friendly GPT sidekick for discovering secure, public Wi‑Fi spots—no guesswork involved. ✨ Whether you’re hunting for a reliable café connection or a quiet library corner, this GPT delivers. It scans official networks across the city and gives you instant details: SSID, captive portal requirements, noise level, outlets, and more. If you are connecting ...
Google Is Indexing Your Private ChatGPT Conversations
Google indexed thousands of shared ChatGPT chats, some with private info! Why That’s a Problem? Imagine writing a private journal and sticking it on your front porch, thinking no one would ever read it. Now imagine Google rolling by, scooping it up, and filing it neatly under your name. That’s what just happened. A simple share became searchable? Yes, it's ...
No, 16 Billion Leaked Credentials Doesn’t Mean You Were Just Hacked
By Jim Walker, The Hack Repair Guy. Visit original article: on Reddit You may have seen the headlines. Another "Mother of All Breaches!" splashed across your screen, warning of 16 billion stolen credentials floating around the internet. Let's pause a second. This is not a new data breach. Nobody just broke into 10,000 websites overnight. And your favorite shopping site ...
What can you say when as many as 90 million Facebook accounts may have been hacked?
"Hmm..." "On the afternoon of Tuesday, September 25, our engineering team discovered a security issue affecting almost 50 million accounts. We’re taking this incredibly seriously and wanted to let everyone know what’s happened and the immediate action we’ve taken to protect people’s security." https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/09/security-update/ +++ Why should I care? The hackers responsible for this attack took ...
Massive denial of service campaigns going on – “You’ve been Memcrashed!”
There is some massive denial of service campaigns going on this week, and potentially even bigger ones on the horizon due to there being a large number of misconfigured memcached servers (the majority being hosted through Digital Ocean and other cloud providers). A quote fromBy Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, "The result is an attack that can take down pretty much any server ...
Google 62 is out but the “Not Secure” warning is missing?
For months I've been warning about the upcoming “Not Secure” warning coming to Google's web browser in October. Well, it's October 2017, Google Chrome version 62 has been released but the heavily forewarned “Not Secure” warning appears to have gone AWOL. In theory, when you visit a non-https web page that includes a form of any sort, a “Not Secure” warning should appear like ...
