The amount of malicious activity on the Internet is growing despite the best efforts of security experts to foil it. When it comes to WordPress sites, attacks are launched across a wide variety of vectors. Whether outdated plugin code is to blame, or password reuse, or any number of other security flaws, no site owner […]
Available since 2007, CAPTCHA and its variants are offered by Google as a free service to help protect websites from spam and abuse. The system distinguishes whether a site visitor is a human or a bot by requiring some type of action to be performed that could only be done by a human, such as […]
Your website is among hundreds of millions of websites worldwide, so you’re probably wondering why anyone would bother breaking into yours. Sure, you’ve invested time, money and effort to build your website, but there’s probably nothing there that is valuable enough to attract the attention of cybercriminals. Or so you might think…
If you’re using WordPress, there’s a good chance you’ve experienced difficulty getting your email forms to work. Worse yet, when users fill out a form on your website, they get a “success” message indicating that their message was sent and that they can expect a response from you soon. The trouble is that the user’s […]
Many cyber attacks begin with a phishing email that tries to convince the recipient to download an attachment, click a link, go to a web page, or fill out a form. In an attempt to gain trust, the sender’s email address may indicate someone known to the recipient such as a friend or colleague at […]
When browsing the web you have probably noticed that many sites have a padlock next to the browser’s address bar. This indicates that the website has been issued a security certificate. If you click on the padlock, you can verify that the website connection is secure and view the source of the certificate. You might […]
Online criminals have gotten savvier but they’re still relying on the same old tricks they’ve been using for decades. Research by the Helsinki-based cyber security firm F-Secure shows spam remains the most common method of spreading malicious URLs, scams and malware more than 40 years after the first email spam was sent. “Email spam is […]
