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In mid December 2014, a major security threat to WordPress.com sites as well as sites hosting WordPress was discovered. The malware (or malicious software) called RevSlider continues to insert its code into sites which then attack visitors’ computers. The security vulnerability stems from a popular WordPress plugin called Slider Revolution. Many times it is bundled […]

Everyone who has used a smart phone at one point or another has experienced this. You search for something online and find what appears to be a great website. Then you click on the link. Suddenly you feel like you need reading glasses because the text is so small. You have to swipe your screen

Anyone who uses the internet on their smartphone has run into this error message when wanting to watch a video “A plugin is needed to display this content”. This annoying error is because Adobe Flash is not installed on your phone. And it shouldn’t be! The Flash Player is dead. It bugs out, requires constant

When surfing the web, you may have noticed in the address bar that sometimes it changes from http://www.example.com to https://www.example.com. The addition of the “S” in the URL means that the site is secure (encrypted) so that any personal information you enter cannot be exploited. This can be anything from an account password to a

Although this list has been out for a few months, it bears repeating that people are still using these easily hackable passwords. If your password is on the list of the 10 worst passwords from last year, it’s a really good time to change your password to something more secure. Choosing a password that you

This is the month that Facebook forces all of its users to switch over to its Messenger application. Many are concerned about the app because of the horror stories they’ve heard about how invasive it will be to their privacy. Just recently, however, many of these concerns have been debunked. While it’s true that the

With the amount of security threats happening these days, it’s important to have passwords that are difficult to hack. It’s pretty easy to create them, the hard part is being able to remember them. Well, it’s not as difficult as you might think. Before creating your passwords, you need to know some of the best

On Saturday the Microsoft Security TechCenter published a bulletin about a vulnerability with Internet Explorer versions 6 – 11. In a report from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, “By convincing a user to view a specially crafted HTML document (e.g., a web page or an HTML email message or attachment), an attacker may be

In 1994, Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric ask a question on The Today Show, “What is the Internet, anyway?” Today nearly 90% of Americans use the internet. If it wasn’t for Tim Berners-Lee, a software engineer at CERN, inventing a system for exchanging data over the internet (yes the internet was around before the world

A watering hole attack occurs when hackers add malicious code to a website, like what recently happened to Yahoo, and site visitors are then infected with a virus. This can pop up on any legitimate site you visit and the hackers are getting trickier every day, so you should always be cautious and alert to

Facebook is 10 years old today, February 4, 2014, and they are celebrating in style. As hundreds of millions of users started logging on this morning, they were greeted with “Look Back”, a video compilation that is set to music and looks back at their lives on Facebook from the beginning. This video includes special

Yahoo announced on Thursday, January 30, 2014, that their security experts found a “coordinated effort to gain unauthorized access to Yahoo Mail accounts”. According to Yahoo’s post on Tumbler about this breach, “…the list of usernames and passwords that were used to execute the attack was likely collected from a third-party database compromise. We have

Have you run into content thieves, also known as content scrapers, during your blogging tenure? If not, you probably will at some point in your writing career. How do you know if your site has been scraped? All of your content will redirect through another site’s servers. These sites, such as BuzzMyFx, lead you to

You may be wondering what, exactly, is a “Twibel”. Well, it’s a Twitter libel case. Seriously? People sue others because of Twitter posts? We live in a litigious society, folks, and people can be sued for what is written on social media sites (libel) just as easily as for what is said verbally (slander). And

Yelp seems to be having a tough time with reviews lately. Just last year, several New York businesses were slapped with hefty fines for paying for fake positive Yelp reviews. So, what now? A Virginia business owner has successfully sued Yelp for the identities of anonymous negative reviewers that are suspected to be fake…meaning that