by wmullins | May 30, 2019 | Other WordPress news, Security
Whether WordPress or not, your website is potentially vulnerable to attacks. Recent reports have shown that Google blacklists thousand of websites containing malware and phishing attacks every week. Given how serious potential WordPress security breaches can be for...
by wmullins | Apr 26, 2019 | Other WordPress news
With the brilliant features and customisation options that WordPress provides, it’s no surprise that almost 33% of websites use WordPress CMS. However, potential security issues are something that can come back to bite site owners. In fact, out of the 8,000 hacked...
by udadmin | Feb 5, 2019 | Other WordPress news, Security
If you are using Wordfence’s security scanner, and having it tell you that you have a virus “Backdoor:PHP/SEemf0Ji” in the file phpseclib/tests/Unit/Crypt/RSA/LoadKeyTest.php inside UpdraftPlus, then this is a false positive (*). You can compare your...
by snightingale | Sep 6, 2018 | Other WordPress news
As part of Colour Blind Awareness Day 2018 I thought I would share my experiences. I first discovered I was colour blind at the age of 7 while in class at primary school, looking at a chalkboard and struggling to read the yellow writing. After this incident I went to...
by Romelch Otic | May 28, 2018 | Other WordPress news
We would like to share a beautiful infographic that Mofluid and its co-founder, Roberto Garvin did.
by Romelch Otic | May 25, 2018 | Other WordPress news, Security
Do your WordPress sites contain EU user or customer data? If so, today is GDPR day which means you now legally need to consider the privacy and security of their data whether or not you’re in the EU. If you backup your WordPress site with EU user data, then you...
by Romelch Otic | May 21, 2018 | Other WordPress news, Security
We are hooked on the internet and demand to be connected to the digital world 24/7. Our reliance on the online world and willingness to divulge our personal information with websites creates unique opportunities for criminals to steal our data, an extremely valuable...
by Romelch Otic | May 11, 2018 | Easy Updates Manager, Keyy, MetaSlider, Other WordPress news, UpdraftCentral, UpdraftPlus advantages, UpdraftPlus development news, UpdraftPlus growth, WP Optimize
GDPR is an important new data regulation coming into force soon across the whole of the EU. We’re working on fully complying ourselves with our own customer data, and have launched a Data and Privacy Centre here:...
by Romelch Otic | Apr 24, 2018 | MetaSlider, Other WordPress news
WordPress has developed a new editing experience, which it humbly named Gutenberg, “after another invention that revolutionized publishing.” According to its website, Gutenberg will make a big difference to how everyone- users, developers and hosts- interacts with...
by Romelch Otic | Mar 19, 2018 | Other WordPress news, UpdraftPlus advantages
A lot of people have just had a stark reminder of the importance of up-to-date backups. This month website hosting company 123 Reg suffered a hardware failure on one of its servers. This led to some of its customers’ websites either being lost entirely, partially...