Protecting Your Personal Data: Lessons From A Security Expert
Learn how to protect your personal data from cybercriminals using strategies borrowed from website security expert Jim Walker, The Hack Repair Guy. He shares actionable tips to safeguard your Social Security information, prevent tax refund theft, and maintain digital hygiene. Whether you're tech-savvy or just getting started, this guide presents steps to keep your personal information secure in an increasingly ...
The Importance of Off-Site Backups: Protecting Your Website if Your Hosting Company is Hacked
Another reason to maintain your own "off-site" backups. What if your web hosting company is hacked? Otherwise, you could be this guy, "Hosting firm says it lost all customer data after ransomware attack" "Unfortunately, the system and data restoration process isn't going smoothly, and CloudNordic says many of its customers have lost data that appears to be irrecoverable..." For those ...
Mastering WordPress Security: A Comprehensive Guide to Safeguarding Your Website
Listen to “An introduction to the HackRepair.com article: Mastering WordPress Security: A Comprehensive Guide to Safeguarding Your Website” In the wake of a good number of companies reporting data breaches this past year, it's become abundantly clear that website security is a concern that should be at the forefront of everyone's minds - WordPress bloggers included. In 2023, the online ...
Data Breaches in 2023: Lessons for WordPress Bloggers
[This original article has been superseded by my more recent article, "Mastering WordPress Security: A Comprehensive Guide to Safeguarding Your Website"] Hello, WordPress community! In the wake of good number of companies reporting data breaches this past year it's become abundantly clear that cybersecurity is a concern that should be at the forefront of everyone's minds - WordPress bloggers included ...
WordPress 5.5 Auto-updates Are Coming. To Auto-update or Not Auto-update? That Is the Question.
If you haven't heard, there's a big update for WordPress coming soon. The WordPress 5.5 update will include a new feature called "Auto-updates for plugins and themes." How does this auto-updates for plugins and themes option in WordPress affect you? In two words, it doesn't. The Auto-updates for plugins and themes setting in WordPress 5.5 is disabled by default. So ...
Top Web Hosting Company’s Security Failures in 2019
Not meaning to further freak you folks out, but here's an interesting article showing how hackers have hacked accounts at Bluehost, Dreamhost, HostGator, and iPage, potentially exposing millions of websites to compromise. It would seem that these service providers have/had quite a few vulnerabilities, potentially exposing millions of websites to compromise. And the fun part. There are even video demonstrations ...
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 ...
Protecting Your Personal Data: Lessons From A Security Expert
Learn how to protect your personal data from cybercriminals using strategies borrowed from website security expert Jim Walker, The Hack Repair Guy. He shares actionable tips to safeguard your Social Security information, prevent tax refund theft, and maintain digital hygiene. Whether you're tech-savvy or just getting started, this guide presents steps to keep your personal information secure in an increasingly ...
The Importance of Off-Site Backups: Protecting Your Website if Your Hosting Company is Hacked
Another reason to maintain your own "off-site" backups. What if your web hosting company is hacked? Otherwise, you could be this guy, "Hosting firm says it lost all customer data after ransomware attack" "Unfortunately, the system and data restoration process isn't going smoothly, and CloudNordic says many of its customers have lost data that appears to be irrecoverable..." For those ...
Mastering WordPress Security: A Comprehensive Guide to Safeguarding Your Website
Listen to “An introduction to the HackRepair.com article: Mastering WordPress Security: A Comprehensive Guide to Safeguarding Your Website” In the wake of a good number of companies reporting data breaches this past year, it's become abundantly clear that website security is a concern that should be at the forefront of everyone's minds - WordPress bloggers included. In 2023, the online ...
Data Breaches in 2023: Lessons for WordPress Bloggers
[This original article has been superseded by my more recent article, "Mastering WordPress Security: A Comprehensive Guide to Safeguarding Your Website"] Hello, WordPress community! In the wake of good number of companies reporting data breaches this past year it's become abundantly clear that cybersecurity is a concern that should be at the forefront of everyone's minds - WordPress bloggers included ...
WordPress 5.5 Auto-updates Are Coming. To Auto-update or Not Auto-update? That Is the Question.
If you haven't heard, there's a big update for WordPress coming soon. The WordPress 5.5 update will include a new feature called "Auto-updates for plugins and themes." How does this auto-updates for plugins and themes option in WordPress affect you? In two words, it doesn't. The Auto-updates for plugins and themes setting in WordPress 5.5 is disabled by default. So ...
Top Web Hosting Company’s Security Failures in 2019
Not meaning to further freak you folks out, but here's an interesting article showing how hackers have hacked accounts at Bluehost, Dreamhost, HostGator, and iPage, potentially exposing millions of websites to compromise. It would seem that these service providers have/had quite a few vulnerabilities, potentially exposing millions of websites to compromise. And the fun part. There are even video demonstrations ...
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 ...
