In October 2016, several major websites that many people use daily, including Twitter, PayPal, Reddit, and Netflix, as well as those of the papers New York Times and Wall Street Journal, experienced what is called a distributed denial of service attack. This attack, known as DDoS, prevents certain sites from being online through overcrowding with…
Have you ever done a credibility check on your website? If not, then how can you be sure that your website isn’t turning customers away? While there will always be users who pay little attention to Internet safety, the majority are schooled in recognizing the signs of a trustworthy website. How do you know if…
In early April 2013, small-time bloggers and high traffic websites alike using WordPress were hit hard with brute force attacks. Websites had hundreds if not thousands of bots from all over the world trying to gain access. Your website was probably one of them. If you don’t have security on your WordPress site, then you…
