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 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...
by Nikole Garcia | Apr 3, 2014 | Web Tech |
A friend of mine went to his website to log in the other day, and all he saw was this: Without so much as an e-mail, his "lifetime plan" at his web hosting company went down in flames, with only the hint that they might be able to find his data if he...
