Site Geeks

05/06/2020

28000 GoDaddy hosting accounts were compromised via SSH. Wow.

This is a public service announcement (PSA) from the Wordfence team regarding a security issue which may impact some of our customers. On May 4, 2020, GoDaddy, one of the world’s largest website hosting providers, disclosed that the SSH credentials of approximately 28,000 GoDaddy hosting accounts ...

06/20/2019

I admit it. I love AppSumo. According to trackmysubs.com, I've paid a little over $1000 for over $15000 worth of services in the last 3 years through AppSumo deals. So, yeah, I'm entering their contest. :) If you have a blog or online busiiness, you should too.

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03/18/2019

I sometimes feel like a broken record, but this is a pretty good article from Zapier's blog about common password mistakes. TLDR: use a password manager (hence, the broken record).

Passwords. We all have lots of them these days. And yet we're told repeatedly to not reuse passwords and to make them strong. For most of us, that's an opposing set of directives. Unless you have some amazing memory, there's no way that we mere mortals will...

03/05/2019

Enter your search parameters above. This is a full-text search just like Google. You can search for tree numbers or names. If searching by name, use just the first and last name for best results.

01/23/2019

This one is really bad and could get much, much worse. If you don't use 2-factor authentication and a password manager, get them now.

There’s no shortage of data breaches these days, but this one should make you sit up and pay attention. The newly discovered “Collection #1" is the largest public data breach by volume, with 772,904,991 unique emails and 21,222,975 unique passwords exposed.

12/31/2018

I certainly hope people start taking their own cybersecurity seriously in 2019. I've already had 1 client who was sent a ransomware message this year -- although it was a "fake ransomware" message. They really hadn't compromised anything but getting his email address and didn't do a very good job of making us believe that they had.

Another year has come and gone and with it the scams that kept us awake at night. What will next year bring?

11/06/2018

The Internet will be 30 next year. Gizmodo has a list of 100 sites that shaped the net.

The World Wide Web is officially old enough for us judge what it’s produced. That’s right, it’s time for the world to start building a canon of the most significant websites of all time, and the Gizmodo staff has opinions.

10/14/2018

Nice explanation of two-factor authentication:

Your digital security is at risk.

10/12/2018

I've been saying this for years, like Jeremiah crying out in the wilderness.

10/06/2018

20 years of Google -- it hardly seems possibble. :)

Pizza, beagles, Mark Twain. See what we searched for over the past two decades