“As a Wall Street Journal blog reported, ransomware has exploded, the attacks more sophisticated as hackers are encouraged by the percentage of victim who pay the ransom. Insurance underwriter Beazley released a report last Thursday in which it said ransomware attacks will be four times higher in 2016 than last year. Sadly, hackers don’t need…
“Through the networking and relationships in the space we’ve built up over the years, I seem to get a fair number of calls with folks who are in a bad situation. Maybe a smaller law firm with no Database Administrator. Sometimes a larger eDiscovery service provider hosting data with system administrators wearing the “DBA Hat”….
Found this article the other day, and as I read through it, I discovered that even for a WordPress oldhead like me, there were some good reminders on using PHPMyAdmin to get database backups quickly, restore backups and more importantly a hood reminder about occasionally going and optimizing the database tables. Hadn’t done that in…
Noting these, for myself if no one else. But if you host your own site using WordPress, you might pick up a tip or two from these videos put together by the folks at WPMU Dev. Personally, I might not be taking all of the advice given, even though I realize that might make my…
No this is not a blog post about Apple’s backup system. This is about a couple of pretty useful plugins for WordPress. One, which I’m pretty sure got it’s name from the Apple backup software, I’ve been using for quite a while. The other I just discovered the other day and thought would be kind…
I saw this post about backing up your WordPress blog to Dropbox earlier this month, but when it came time to update this site to the latest WP release, that was the first time I decided to take it for a ride. Sure enough, I installed the wpTimeMachine plugin, and within a few minutes, I…