LinkedIn 6.46 million leaked

If you use LinkedIn (or have in the past, and never cancelled your account), change your passwords to be secure. Please make sure your password for Linkedn is unique; and go to the LinkedIn account settings page directly (do not use a ink from an email or another web...

WordFence Security – K.I.S.S. approach to WordPress Security

To advanced options where you get a large amount of choices of how tight to watch the fence. Wordfence scans your site for viruses, malware, trojans, malicious links, protects your site against scrapers, aggressive robots, fake Googlebots, protects against brute force...

Sucuri Malware Labs and Linux Firewalls

Daniel Cid and the Sucuri Malware Labs team do a great job at providing lists of IP addresses that can cause trouble. Just today they shared a List of IP addresses scanning for vulnerable timthumb which at the time of this article has 975 IP addresses listed. Let me...

Your site is hacked, now what?

For almost seventeen years now, we’ve been helping individuals as well as hosting providers with hacker clean up. Please allow me to share with you some of that experience in terms of what you should do should you find your site is hacked. First, backup your...

Managed Hosting – What are they managing?

Are you being lulled into believing you are on a managed server when you rent your server from the likes of Rackspace.com and other data centers stating they are offering managed servers? What does it really mean when a data center provider states they offer managed...

Revealing the process of becoming PCI Compliant

If you want to accept credit cards online, then you need to be PCI Compliant, whether your business is brand new, or your business been established for centuries. Over the years, we’ve helped various business owners and managers to become PCI Compliant. To those...