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Why would someone hack my WordPress website?

2020-02-03T22:07:17+00:00February 3rd, 2020|Categories: |

The "hacker" often doesn’t care how big or how important your website is, or even what it is, the "hacker" can gain a wide range of benefits from hacking your website. They can divert your traffic to traffic sharing websites to generate them money, they can use your website to send spam, they can steal customer [...]

Do you rebuild websites in the correct way?

2018-11-20T16:52:08+00:00November 20th, 2018|Categories: |

Yes.  One of the more common things that we do here is rebuild websites in the “correct way”.  Frequently self proclaimed “CMS experts” will try to extend your website by building custom plugins for features that already exist inside your CMS, by using raw PHP code to “shell your CMS” for a custom theme, by using [...]

Website Security Terms Glossary

2018-11-20T16:42:26+00:00November 20th, 2018|Categories: , |

Hacking/Penetration Glossary Adware Adware is software designed to force pre-chosen ads to display on your system. Some adware is designed to be malicious and will pop up ads with such speed and frequency that they seem to be taking over everything, slowing down your system and tying up all of your system resources. When adware is [...]

What are the common causes of a hacked websites?

2018-08-30T14:38:59+00:00August 30th, 2018|Categories: |

The most common causes of website hacks is running old versions of your CMS (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, etc), old or unsupported plugins/themes, or shoddy customizations done by another freelance programmer. That said, most CMS systems have core vulnerabilities intentionally in place because plugging those security vulnerabilities is either a different process for different hosting platforms or [...]

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