Migrating Site to HTTPS: A few years ago Google revealed that HTTPS is a ranking factor which drove many website owners to move their site to HTTPS. Google made that announcement back in 2014, and one would think that the entire internet has migrated to HTTPS by now. But a study performed by SEJ revealed…

Need a WordPress Security Service: Did you know that WordPress websites are the number one target for hack attempts? WordPress is the world’s most preferred website building platform, and therefore anyone using the platform puts a target on it’s back. How bad is the situation you ask? Well, some 90,978 number of hack attempts are…

Developers Don’t Update Plugin: WordPress site owners are always cautioned to keep WordPress Core and add-ons (themes and plugins) updated. When kept unattended, addons develop vulnerability that hacker exploit to break into a site. But what if a vulnerability was discovered some time ago and the developer of the plugin hasn’t released an update to address…

Hoarding Plugins Impacts Site: When a particular plugin or theme isn’t working for your site anymore, the common thing to do, is to just look for another. Doing so without deleting the old one, however, can have disastrous consequences for your WordPress site and in this post, we are going to discuss exactly how. Hoarding…

WordPress Security Mistakes: Did you know that every minute some 90,978 hack attempts are made on WordPress websites? Once your site is hacked, hackers use it to execute all sorts of malicious activities like sending spam emails (read – phishing hack), attacking other websites, injecting spam links, redirecting visitors, etc.  This is why WordPress site…

File Inclusion and Arbitrary Code Execution: Earlier this month, an airplane ticket website built on WordPress was hacked leaving the personal data of hundreds of thousands of visitors exposed. In an earlier post on why do hackers hack, we discussed all the reasons why hackers hack including stealing data, sending spam emails, they could be even…

Common Hack Attacks: You just launched your own WordPress site, and things are going well. It’s a simple website, and most of your readers, for now, are people you know. But soon, you notice that things aren’t quite right. There are weird pop-ups that you didn’t add. Or your readers complain that they’re getting redirected…

Why Hackers Hack: WordPress websites are a popular target for hackers. 714 new WordPress sites are created every day which makes WordPress the fastest growing content management service in the world. This sort of popularity has a price. It comes with a target placed on the back. It explains why hackers choose to target WordPress…

Why is Getting Hacked Harmful: Here’s a scenario – you wake up one fine day, get your morning coffee and open your laptop to find something strange happening to your WordPress website. You are horrified to find out that you can’t log into your site, Google has blacklisted your site blocking people you can’t visit your site…

WordPress a popular target: WordPress is the most popular CMS in the world powering over 30% of the global websites. Whether it’s a small business or a large enterprise, anyone who thinks of building a website will consider WordPress. And for good reason too because it’s an open source software, it’s customizable, and backed by an…