Restoring a Hacked WP Site With Wordfence and FTP Watch as I clean a WordPress site containing malicious files. This website uses Wordfence Security, so I used the scanner feature to clean out some of these malicious files. To complete cleaning the server, I used...
Security Tools To Help Fix or Tighten Down Your Website When checking my list of web security tools, I noticed that some of the websites that were referenced no longer exist. In other words, there were broken links. So I decided to update this list and add new...
The process I used to clean and restore a hacked WordPress website “Half of all Cyber attacks are targeted at small businesses. Small business owners often do not pay attention to cybersecurity, thinking they’re not even worth being attacked, and this is...
CMS Security: .htaccess File Protection Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla and most, if not all Content Mangement Systems use the .htaccess file. It is a configuration file that is used on servers using Apache software. A few uses for this configuration file Allow or...
How to fix your mixed content SSL Certificate This issue applies to WordPress sites they were previously not secured with an SSL Certificate. After installing an SSL Certificate, you are excited because you have improved the security for your visitors and know...
A Simple Security Measure that is Overlooked “My message for companies that think they haven’t been attacked is: “You’re not looking hard enough”. [Deputy Director, UK Office for Cyber Security] This is something I discovered while restoring a hacked...
