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…
Anyone who owns or runs a site built on the WordPress content management system has seen those little messages at the top of the dashboard announcing a new update. Some WordPress users religiously take action, but unfortunately, a huge number of users religiously don’t. Whether it be for lack of knowledge or just lack of…
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…
