Yesterday for the 4th time (in 3 years) my business credit card was cancelled by my bank because it had detected unauthorised use. Kudo’s to the ANZ falcon for spotting the bad transactions and protecting my business by not authorising the transactions. We only use our credit card with known merchants with SSL. This means […]
Don’t Let Your Website Be Marked as “Not Secure”
SECURITY NEWS | FEBRUARY 2018 All types of website: business, freelance, creative, agency or blogger will need SSL. Unless you want Google telling visitors that your website is NOT secure, then you must have a security certificate. From July 2018, Google Chrome will display a warning message on HTTP web sites with any type of […]
Best WordPress Security Fix
How we locked down our WordPress web sites, but in one move drastically improved server performance. Keeping in mind that the most common attack against WordPress is brute force passwords, then why not stop it in it’s tracks by blocking access to wp-admin. By blocking all access to WordPress Admin except to known IP Addresses, […]
How important is website security?
As a host as well as a developer we see both sides of website security when it comes to attack and defence. An idea of the level of attacks still taking place, we see a (monthly) report published by security expert Wordfence, WordPress Attack Report. WordPress Attack Report This report contains the top 25 attacking […]
The BEST WordPress Security Plugin of all time
Having read forums, Googled for hours, I wanted to know: What is the best security plugin? What is the best security plugin to deal with Brute Force attacks? What WordPress security plugin is best to block comment spammers? WordPress is the most popular blogging platform in the world with millions of websites using WordPress as […]
Bank Scam Emails
Lets start this with a simple warning.. Your bank will never email you about security.. NEVER, ever, won’t, ever, never!!! Do you understand? Your bank will not email you about anything to do with logging in… ever! If you log in from an email, you are STUPID! Sorry, I mean’t to say, if you login […]
Password | Security Tips
Here he goes again, Mr Doom and Gloom! Well, not quite but read on if you use passwords. Yes, I said passwords! We all do. We use them all day every day. After reading an article by Memphis Barker, in which he asks whether you think your password is safe, then think again, I quickly […]