Keeping Records of Users
Web hosts, Domain registrars, PayPal, Themes, Plugins, Website platforms, Email, … We have so many digital assets, and each of those assets has users.
Category: Web Security
A Deeper Look into Public and Private SSH Keys
A very good Q & A from StackOverflow prompted this discussion of SSH keys
How to Backup your Website
The reason to back up your website is so that you can replace it or move it.
Is it a Hack, or is it a Bug?
When something goes wrong on your website, it’s difficult to tell whether the problem is whether something is broken due to a technical error or due to a malicious action.
About Secure Certificates (SSL)
“They” say that you should have a secure certificate for your website, but what is a secure certificate?
FireFox Discussion and 2018 WordFence Discusses FireFox Vulnerability
What Does a Browser Do? A browser is a type of software that you can install on your computer. Many people think of “the web” as their browser, but a browser is actually just a tool to show resources that are on the internet network. What To Do About the …
Comment Spam: When the Good Guys Can Find Your Site …
When the Good Guys Can Find Your Site … so can the bad guys! And, some of the bad guys will try to load your site with Comment Spam.
As the Hacked Site Turns, Episodes 1 – 3
A while back, montanawebmaster.com was hacked. As I worked through the hack, I posted my findings on Facebook.
When Google Search Console Helps You Find a Hacked Site
3 times, a check of Google Search Console helped me figure out that a site was hacked.
“If You Have One Backup, You Have No Backups”
SECURITY: I had a hacked client website situation where we had to go through several months of backups to find a copy that didn’t have the compromised code. In this case, they had not responded to my emails that they needed to update their software 6 months earlier.