If you follow technology news you'll know that there's been a very large attacking ongoing against self-hosted Wordpress blogs. While the worst of the attack may have stopped for now it's still ongoing. Our technical team released some figures that show the scale of the attack. And we're not that big a hosting provider when you compare us to the "big boys" such as GoDaddy. … [Read more...] about Dealing With WordPress Hack Attacks
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Mitnick Bio – A Fascinating Read
I've just finished reading Kevin Mitnick's biography - Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker While it might be a biography it reads like a thriller. Mitnick was a hacker, but he broke into systems out of curiosity - not to make money or do harm. The book covers his escapades as well as touching on some of the crazy myths attributed to … [Read more...] about Mitnick Bio – A Fascinating Read
Website Traffic And Hacks
A couple of months ago one of the sites I run was hacked via a nasty hole in a plugin that it was using. It took quite a bit of work to find the source of the issue and resolve it once and for all. Once the hole had been plugged properly the traffic levels returned to normal. But it's only when you have a reasonable amount of data that you can really see how much impact … [Read more...] about Website Traffic And Hacks
Traffic Levels Returning After A Fix
It's been a week since I fixed the issue on a site that had been infected by some malware. As I mentioned in my previous post, the malware was stealing the site's search engine traffic. And the graphs show very clearly how things have improved in only a few days: And if you look at that over the course of a week it's even clearer Hopefully (fingers crossed) there … [Read more...] about Traffic Levels Returning After A Fix
Nasty Hacks Hijack Your Site’s Traffic
Any popular content management system, be it for a blog, a website or a forum, is going to be targetted by hackers at some point. They'll try to find ways to exploit any security vulnerability that they can find. To be honest you could expand that statement and simply say "any popular software". If the hack is a defacement or similar you'll notice it pretty quickly, but … [Read more...] about Nasty Hacks Hijack Your Site’s Traffic