The Security Problem Security practices are often overlooked (even ignored) in many small to mid-sized businesses today. Employees put company data, trade secrets, client info, and much more at risk everyday and are not even aware that they are doing it. From logging in to email and company resources from free Wi-Fi at a coffee shop to not locking down their hardware at … [Read more...]
Slides From WordCamp Atlanta
Thank you so much to those of you who attended my talk on "WordPress Security - Beyond The Plugins". To those who attended these slides will make sense. To those who missed it, you may be able get some benefit from the slides but I rarely put like 1000 bullet points in my presentations because people hate that. Instead, I use images and stories to get my point across. If … [Read more...]
Is Your Small Business Website Vulnerable To Hackers?
In short - YES! For starters, consider the following: Here's an example of how long it will take a hacker to hack a sample password (similar to what you may be using right now) Password example: child -- can be hacked instantly! <<--See that? INSTANTLY!!!!! child00 -- can be hacked in 19 seconds childname --- can be hacked in 22 minutes ChilD$n@mE--- can be … [Read more...]
Best Way to Avoid Getting WordPress Website Hacked
Best Way to Avoid Getting WordPress Website Hacked Alright good day and welcome, welcome to WordPress website secrets for the absolute beginner and I'm all caffeine-up this morning cuz we starting to get into the stuff that I really love which is security not to say that were passed the beginner stuff because we're definitely not passed the beginner stuff but I … [Read more...]