Posted by Hank C. on Nov 23, 2021 in Blog, Web Security
How to tell if any site is absolutely unsafe to trust Another seemingly trustworthy site is in the news today. GoDaddy has been hacked. If you currently, or ever did host a website there, should you be worried? ABSOLUTELY! If they’d hired any responsible person with only thirty minutes of training in web security, and put that person in charge of running their server security operations, you probably wouldn’t have anything to worry about. Why? Because the first...
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Posted by Hank C. on May 23, 2018 in Blog, Joomla, Web Security
Joomla Security Update If you own a Joomla website, and you care about how Joomla security issues are affecting your web visitors and your own organization, you can’t afford to NOT READ this article! Owners of Joomla websites and many WordPress website owners got security update emails this morning. OK, nothing new about that, but.. But what a difference in those messages! Description Inadequate filtering of file and folder names lead to various XSS attack vectors in...
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Posted by Hank C. on Apr 28, 2018 in Blog, WordPress
If you’re looking for beautiful WordPress themes, RocketThemes.com can be quite alluring. But as in Nature, beauty can be dangerous! My client needed to convert a large Joomla website to WordPress, due to Joomla’s security issues going so long without remedy, dwindling support for extensions and the bugs that pop up when abandoned extensions can’t be updated, etc. “Fortunately” her website’s RocketTheme Cerulean template was offered in...
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Posted by Hank C. on Apr 14, 2018 in Small Business
This is truly a subject I wish I didn’t have to talk about. But sadly, 80% of the stories I hear from new clients are about being cheated from their previous web designer/developer. About half are cheated due to the web person just being plain incompetent. They probably thought they could do the job in the beginning, but then quickly ended up over their heads and not wanting to have to refund the money the likely already had spent, they just kept digging a deeper...
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Posted by Hank C. on Apr 12, 2018 in Blog, Small Business
GDPR: General Data Protection Regulation Does your website invite visitors from the U.S. and Europe? Or perhaps the entire world? Then you need to know about a new law (effective next month) that you’re almost certainly in violation of, and that could cost you over $24,000,000 in fines! You say you don’t have a website in Europe, you don’t store financial information, you’re just a little business in Tampa with a little website, so you...
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Posted by Hank C. on Apr 11, 2018 in Blog, Web Security
If you read IT and web security news, then you know this is happening thousands of times each day, all over the world, but especially in the U.S. and Canada where our consumers are considered big, fat targets and our overall web security is notoriously weak. This article in ITworldCanada.com shows just another incident that few will hear about, but if you have a website, you really do need to pay attention to this one. Here’s why – This business created a...
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