Why People Get Hacked – Overheard
Overheard at a local eatery recently: “Now the phone will tell you that you need to update, but never do that. Those updates just take up more space and slow it down every time you do it.” And we wonder … Continued
Linked – Epidemic: Hackers Insert Cyber Attacks in Social Media Posts
This is something I’ve been concerned about for a long time, because links on social media are usually shortened using a service like bitly, or even WordPress, and you don’t really know where they go until you click on them. … Continued
Linked – WordPress hacks expose law firms’ cyber-disconnect – and, perhaps, client data
The lesson, as always, don’t use WordPress or any other web-facing technology if you aren’t going to keep up to date with it. “Earlier this month, users of the popular WordPress CMS were advised to upgrade to the latest version … Continued
Linked – A Feeding Frenzy to Deface WordPress Sites
If you haven’t updated your WordPress install to 4.7.2, you might want to do that, assuming that it hasn’t already been hacked and defaced. Seems like that’s only a matter of time. https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/02/rest-api-exploit-feeding-frenzy-deface-wordpress-sites/ Image by Phil Oakley Tags: Security, Wordpress
Now Coming at you with SSL
Most of you probably haven’t noticed the change on the site over the last few days. At least I hope not many have, but go ahead and look up in your address bar. Yes, the site is no longer http://, … Continued
Linked – Here’s a secret: ?oogle.com. is not google.com
The Danger Well, someone, somewhere, gave out the domain ?oogle.com to someone who was not representing google.com. what is stopping them from mimicking YOUR web site, or YOUR BANK’s website, and then leaving innocent-looking links for you to fall prey to? … Continued
Linked – WordPress bloggers ‘strongly encouraged’ to immediately apply security update
If you don’t have automatic updates turned on your self-hosted WordPress sites, you should probably make some time to get them updated. Nothing like having your site hacked because you skipped an update that patches vulnerabilities! And while you’re at … Continued