by Nikole Garcia | May 19, 2014 | Security, Web Tech |
A few weeks ago, a friend of of mine told me she needed a SSL certificate for her WooCommerce/Wordpress site. This is pretty much how the conversation went: Me: Why do you need a SSL certificate? Her: So I can have the checkout on my site. Me: Why do you want to have...
by Nikole Garcia | May 17, 2014 | Security, Web Tech |
This post is half a rant and half a lesson for all to learn — and 100% an exercise in bravery for saying it all. I’ll start out with the rant because I just have to get this off my chest before anyone gets hurt, and then we’ll talk about how you can...
by Nikole Garcia | May 15, 2014 | Security, Web Tech |
While the only real way to know if your WordPress site has been hacked is to examine the files on the server, I often hear common themes when people contact me to figure out what is going on with their site. I’ve compiled this list so that you can know what the...
by Nikole Garcia | Apr 18, 2014 | Security, Web Tech |
1. You can’t afford a data breach. I was actually one of the people that was involved in the Target Black Friday data breach — in fact, I shopped there twice during the time period, and used two different cards in those trips, so you can imagine my card...
by Nikole Garcia | Apr 10, 2014 | Web Tech |
I don’t normally post things from my newsletter to the blog, but this one was too important to not post… I’m talking about the HEARTBLEED BUG — that vulnerability in secure encryption that allows hackers to steal passwords and other sensitive...
