Late Friday evening on April 12, 2013, iPage sent out an email to their customers informing and updating them on a recent “brute force attack” on WordPress sites across the internet. According to the email from iPage, this particular attack has over a hundred thousand computers in a botnet that is attempting to locate and […]
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Recently, someone referred me to a web hosting company that specializes in WordPress hosting. More specifically, this company offers managed web hosting. Think of managed hosting as a premium or personalized support plan for your website. In the case of WP Engine (the company I was referred to), your web hosting does include a lot
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One of the educational sessions held at the New Media Expo in Las Vegas last week (NMX 2013) was a presentation by Dre Armeda on how anyone can hack into a WordPress site in five minutes. During the session, Dre showed how automated programs can be used to discover your login ID. Then using a
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