by Nikole Garcia | Oct 23, 2014 | Security, Usability, Web Tech |
We all have stuff we put off. From calling the insurance company to cleaning out your closet, I would bet there is something that you should be taking care of this week that you haven’t done. When it comes to business, however, we all know that procrastination...
by Nikole Garcia | Oct 9, 2014 | Security, Web Tech |
As I work with a lot of clients whose sites have gotten hacked or infected, I get to see a lot of e-mails from the support staff at various major hosting companies. Our first introduction typically starts with the client forwarding me a notice from the hosting...
by Nikole Garcia | Sep 5, 2014 | Security |
Slider Revolution is a very popular plugin for WordPress that allows users to add slides with a selection of transition effects and options to any WordPress page or post. Currently, there is a vulnerability in older versions of this plugin that can allow malware...
by Nikole Garcia | Jun 20, 2014 | Security |
A friend of mine contacted me recently after his site had crashed several times in the same 24-hour period. I reviewed the raw log files from the site, and found about 200+ instances of someone looking for files that didn’t exist. The requested file list read...
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...
