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Making History with your Out-of-Date WordPress Site
The ‘Panama Papers’ hack has done web developers everywhere a great service. Mossack Fonseca provided a live demonstration of what can happen when businesses ignore the most fundamental and widely advertised web security advice: keep your site software up to date. Security Experts have linked the so called ‘Panama Papers’ hack to outdated WordPress and…
Continue Reading...The Perils of Sourcing WordPress Plugins from the Wrong Places
It’s an easy mistake to make. You need a plugin. You Google it, find one, download it and unknowingly install malicious code on your WordPress site…
Continue Reading...Easy Secure Passwords
Internet security is never far from the news these days. In the light of recent high profile security breaches, two pieces of advice come to the fore: use different passwords on all your accounts and make sure they are strong. This is pretty much part II of an article I wrote on good password practises…
Continue Reading...What is WordPress?
If you have been browsing the internet lately, chances are you have already encountered WordPress. WordPress is software used to make websites. It powers millions of sites on the web. As of early 2016 around 26% of the entire web is powered by WordPress! Those sites are seen by tens of millions of people every…
Continue Reading...Two Factor Authentication for WordPress
Two-factor authentication is a security process in which the user provides two means of identification, one of which is typically a physical token, such as a card, and the other of which is typically something memorized, such as a security code. In this context, the two factors involved are sometimes spoken of as something you…
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