Mayhem Lurks. How to Come Back from a Hacker Attack!
Your small business website is working great. Your personal website now features a WordPress blog. Whether it is a personal website or a small business website, you have invested time, talent, and money in creating a website. Hopefully, you have made the decision to use ClickHOST for simple hosting or WordPress hosting. But you may not realize that Mayhem lurks around every dark corner. Maybe it is a hacker, ready to pounce on your unprotected site just for kicks (the recent Zappos.com breach is a good example). Or maybe it is a clever parasite, called malware, that has already wormed...
Read MoreThree sure fire ways to prevent being hacked!
If a hacker wants to access your site, then it is almost impossible to prevent him/her from doing this. Just ask, Sony and digital security firm, RSA. BUT, don’t leave the door open like most people do. Let me share the secret now: Use a password generator to generate a secure password and then use a password storage program to recall your passwords. It is impossible to remember many secure passwords. Use technology to help you! The biggest reason that websites get hacked isn’t weak server security or necessarily very sophistication hackers, but 50% of the time it is because of...
Read MoreWordPress security flaw, timthumb, fixed
August 7, 2011: WordPress security flaw, timthumb. All our customers’ WordPress installations were updated. We love WordPress and we have numerous customers running WordPress installations. Recently a significant WordPress security flaw were uncovered. You can read all about it from ZDNet, and from the creator of the plugin, Mark Maunder. As soon as we heard about this vulnerability we scanned all our server and as of Aug 6, 2011 we applied the fix to ALL WordPress installation. What should you do now? 1. Make sure your WordPress website or blog is functioning correctly. 2. Upgrade...
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