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PayPal and Phishing
A reader asked: I received this message a few days ago. When I clicked on the link it started taking me through the process of filling out my name, etc… At the point when it asked for my credit card...
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Lessons Learned from Downtime
If you haven’t read Pat Flynn’s article, entitled So THIS is What Happens When Your Server Goes Down for a Week (link opens in new window), you should check that out first. I just wanted to introduce...
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5 Reasons Why You Should Not Be Storing Financial Data
1. You can’t afford a data breach. I was actually one of the people that was involved in the Target Black Friday data breach — in fact, I shopped there twice during the time period, and used two...
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How to Know You’ve Been Hacked
While the only real way to know if your WordPress site has been hacked is to examine the files on the server, I often hear common themes when people contact me to figure out what is going on with...
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The Care and Feeding of Websites
This post is half a rant and half a lesson for all to learn — and 100% an exercise in bravery for saying it all. I’ll start out with the rant because I just have to get this off my chest before anyone...
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Avoid the Man in the Middle
A few weeks ago, a friend of of mine told me she needed a SSL certificate for her WooCommerce/Wordpress site. This is pretty much how the conversation went: Me: Why do you need a SSL certificate? Her:...
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Defending Your Castle: How to Recognize a WordPress Attack
A friend of mine contacted me recently after his site had crashed several times in the same 24-hour period. I reviewed the raw log files from the site, and found about 200+ instances of someone looking...
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How to Know if Your Revolution Slider is Vulnerable
Slider Revolution is a very popular plugin for WordPress that allows users to add slides with a selection of transition effects and options to any WordPress page or post. Currently, there is a...
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“What does this even mean?”
As I work with a lot of clients whose sites have gotten hacked or infected, I get to see a lot of e-mails from the support staff at various major hosting companies. Our first introduction typically...
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The Stuff That Business Owners Put Up With
We all have stuff we put off. From calling the insurance company to cleaning out your closet, I would bet there is something that you should be taking care of this week that you haven’t done. When it...
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Where Automation Fails (At The Worst Time)
I had a client contact me recently because her host had said she was hacked. I set to work on her site, cleaning it and transferring it to a new hosting account. In the meantime, she received another...
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This is long. You may want to get comfy and grab some popcorn. First of all … I felt it was only fair to give this exchange some context by showing you a video that explained what I was asking the...
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The Care and Feeding of Websites
This post is half a rant and half a lesson for all to learn — and 100% an exercise in bravery for saying it all. I’ll start out with the rant because I just have to get this off my chest before anyone...
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Avoid the Man in the Middle
A few weeks ago, a friend of of mine told me she needed a SSL certificate for her WooCommerce/Wordpress site. This is pretty much how the conversation went: Me: Why do you need a SSL certificate? Her:...
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Defending Your Castle: How to Recognize a WordPress Attack
A friend of mine contacted me recently after his site had crashed several times in the same 24-hour period. I reviewed the raw log files from the site, and found about 200+ instances of someone looking...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How to Know if Your Revolution Slider is Vulnerable
Slider Revolution is a very popular plugin for WordPress that allows users to add slides with a selection of transition effects and options to any WordPress page or post. Currently, there is a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“What does this even mean?”
As I work with a lot of clients whose sites have gotten hacked or infected, I get to see a lot of e-mails from the support staff at various major hosting companies. Our first introduction typically...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Stuff That Business Owners Put Up With
We all have stuff we put off. From calling the insurance company to cleaning out your closet, I would bet there is something that you should be taking care of this week that you haven’t done. When it...
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Where Automation Fails (At The Worst Time)
I had a client contact me recently because her host had said she was hacked. I set to work on her site, cleaning it and transferring it to a new hosting account. In the meantime, she received another...
View ArticleMy Recent Experience with Bluehost
This is long. You may want to get comfy and grab some popcorn. First of all … I felt it was only fair to give this exchange some context by showing you a video that explained what I was asking the...
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