An Everyday Task – Taking action on Software Vulnerabilities
As I always do, I reviewed this week’s WordPress Vulnerability Report (WPVR) by iThemes Security Pro. This one was a lot larger than normal with …
a 48-Hour Head Start In The Race To Secure Your WordPress Website
Any good WordPress website administrator is always striving to improve their ability to monitor your website for vulnerabilities and find them before they become a problem.
Recently one of my favorite security tools, iThemes Security Pro, made a significant improvement in their ability to identify threats to a WordPress website. They have integrated their vulnerability scanning component with Patchstack’s Threat Feed.
Jacqueline Briggs Martin – A Children’s Author’s Website
Jackie, (aka: Jacqueline Briggs Martin), is an accomplished author of children’s books. One book of hers you may have heard about, Snowflake Bentley, was the winner of the 1999 Caldecott Award.
I mentioned that I thought she needed a new website and I offered to make it for her. She agreed to let me. I was thrilled to get started, but, knew I had a lot of work to do.
In addition to streamlining and reorganizing the content flow, updating the design to work with mobile devices, we also decided to migrate almost 100 blog posts from an abandoned Blogspot account that we couldn’t access as owner/admin.
In the end, this turned out to be one of my favorite website rescues / renovations…
Phishing for the right words
I was recently asked to explain to a client what the cybercrime called Phishing is. After giving my explanation I realized there are many “unique” …
Don’t Click that Link!
This is a short Public Service Announcement (PSA). Below is a story of a recent phishing attempt disguised as a warning in an official looking …
Are there too many items In your Main Nav menu?
When are there too many things in your main navigation? I usually say that a main nav should have no more than 5 main elements. …