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Hack Prevention
Does Your Website Need an Oil Change? WordPress Website Care & Maintenance
When I was 16, I inherited my mom’s blue mustang. I loved driving that car, and I put a LOT of miles on it chauffeuring my friends around. I loved that car all the way up until the day the... Continue Reading »
Upgrade Your WordPress Version to Help Prevent Hacks
Keeping your Wordpress website up-to-date is not just a good idea, it’s a requirement.
Wordpress is a wonderful platform–it’s open-source (translation:practically free), it has fantastic SEO benefits right out of the box. It’s estimated that 15% of the internet runs on Wordpress. However, because it is so popular, evil hackers are ALWAYS trying to find and exploit vulnerabilities in the code in order to hack your site.
WordPress 3.5.2 Maintenance and Security Release
WordPress 3.5.2 is now available. This is the second maintenance release of 3.5, fixing 12 bugs. The WordPress security team resolved seven security issues, and this release also contains some additional security hardening. Details on the release » This is a... Continue Reading »
Defend Against Brute Force Attacks with a Very Strong Password
Brute Force Attacks on WordPress and Joomla Login Pages This Week Over the past several days, many web hosts are reporting a sharp increase of brute-force attacks on their systems, including our hosting. These attacks attempt to gain access to... Continue Reading »
Constant Vigilance… with Sucuri!
The Problem: Your website has been hacked. A while back a client came to us with a compromised website. Unbeknownst to her her website had been infected with malware. It wasn’t until clients started calling to let her know their... Continue Reading »