Website Security News
Imagine waking up in the morning to see that a couple of calls were missed and your email is overloaded with messages saying that your website is down. You go to your computer to check your server and it’s working fine – but oh no, …
If you are doing website development and have a local repository, or store website backups on your computer, you should strongly consider encrypting these sensitive files. In the event that…
Read More about Using a VeraCrypt File Container to Encrypt Local Website Files
Earlier this week we wrote about how to use command line tools to back up your website. Check out our previous article for details on how we create these backups….
Read More about How to Restore Website Backups from the Command Line
Creating website backups should be one of the most important recurring tasks for a website administrator, and yet backups are often forgotten when thinking about website security. Creating backups using…
Read More about How to Create Website Backups Using Command-line Tools
When a site gets hacked, the attack doesn’t end with the malicious payload or spam content. Hackers know that most website administrators will clean up the infection and look no…
Read More about Learning From Buggy WordPress Wp-login Malware
Recently I had the good fortune of being able to present at Wordcamp Vancouver 2015. My presentation was titled ‘Why Security Matters‘ and I mentioned website backups several times. One…
Welcome to our second post in the series on WP-CLI for WordPress management over SSH. In our previous post, we discussed how to get your SSH credentials and use WP-CLI to…
Read More about WP-CLI Guide: Secure WordPress Backup and Update
The past few months we’ve been spending a good deal of time talking about backups. This is for good reason, they are often your safety net e nen things go…
We’ve all heard it a million times before – backups are important. Still, the reality is that even today, a website backup strategy remains one of the most overlooked and…
We have also released a more recent post exploring this vulnerability further: The Details Behind the Akeeba Backup Vulnerability If you’re a user of the very popular “Akeeba Backup for…
Read More about Security Advisory – Akeeba Backup for Joomla!
I travel a lot (might actually be an understatement these days), but the travel always revolves around a couple of common threads – website security education and awareness. In these…
Read More about Backups – The Forgotten Website Security Pillar
