Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
WordPress is one of the most – if not the most – popular website package on the web. Both professional web designers and less professional web designers use it. One of the reasons it is so popular is that with a little work, anyone can alter the code or download …
The premium WordPress plugin LayerSlider, which is used in over one million sites, has been shown to be vulnerable to one of the most basic of cyber security hacks – unauthenticated SQL injection. There were tutorials at Napier University showing us how to carry out these types of hacks, it …
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I wrote about the potential victim base that any WordPress cyber security issue exposes last week: WordPress is always a target Have a read of that article if you do not understand why WordPress, WordPress plugins and user authorisation, need careful management in any cyber security plan. To reinforce the …
WordPress is one of the most – if not the most – popular website package on the web. Both professional web designers and less professional web designers use it. One of the reasons it is so popular is that with a little work, anyone can alter the code or download …
Many people use the Stripe payment plugin, including some of our clients – all of whom have been contacted by our support team. WordPress Stripe payment plugin bug leaks customer order details (bleepingcomputer.com) Have your web developers or cyber security support contacted you? Do you even know if this issue …
Just before I write this I am going to alert our web team so they can check our clients have the WordPress patch installed and if not get it done for them… The WordPress JetPack is a useful add-on for WordPress websites that provides a range of extra functionality – …
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Having temporarily closed its doors last week to new business, PyPi – a python code repository – is now enforcing the most basic of cyber security precautions – 2FA! PyPI announces mandatory use of 2FA for all software publishers (bleepingcomputer.com) Your takeaway from this is that any essential business service …
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