TECKNA Creative

12/27/2017

Running any of these 3 plug-ins on your WordPress sites? No Follow All External Links (9K+ active installs), WP No External Links (30K+ active installs) or Duplicate Page And Post. (50K+ active installs) ... you'll want to double check and get on this right away...

In the last two weeks, the WordPress.org repository has closed three plugins because they contained content-injection backdoors. “Closing” a plugin means that it is no longer available for download from the repository, and will not show up in WordPress.org search results. Each of them had been p...

12/05/2017

Working at home today, watching iOS update (41 minutes?!) and waiting on Comcast to fix our cable... this pinged my inbox and I had to laugh! This is FANTASTIC! Now if they only made one that would haggle with teenagers... anyone tried TRIM yet?

Let’s be honest: Negotiating with cable providers is miserable. However, a company named Trim has a nifty little chat bot that’ll do the dirty work for you.

10/26/2017

Huh... How about that?! Still trying to get my head around the concept of crypto mining without realizing that as a WP site(s) owner I could be participating and not even know it! Are you crypto-literate or crypto-confused?

During the last month, the information security media has paid a lot of attention to cryptocurrency mining malware. The Wordfence team has been monitoring the situation, and we are now starting to see attacks attempting to upload mining malware, and site cleaning customers that are already infected....

10/19/2017

Will you be adding two keys to secure your email?

Google has just launched a set of new features to make it harder to break into your account.

09/30/2017

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When you add hashtags to the description for a new Pin, Pinners can visit a feed of all the Pins that share that hashtag. To learn more about what hashtags are and how to add them to your Pins, visit this article.

08/24/2017

Heads up

Just a quick note. Dreamhost is currently experiencing a DDoS attack. Posted 20 mins ago. I’ll be posting updates here as the situation progresses. Their engineers are clearly working the problem.

08/10/2017

FB TV- Are you seeing the Watch Tab in your account yet?

Facebook's push into becoming a destination for original TV shows begins Thursday with the launch of its redesigned Watch video tab.

08/08/2017

TrafficTrade Infection: If you are using Newspaper theme on WordPress, be sure to check this out.

We have seen a significant increase in the number of websites affected by malware we refer to as ‘TrafficTrade’. This malware is a piece of javascript that an attacker drops into your website content once they have compromised it. Your visitors are then redirected to websites that install malicious…

05/23/2017

YAY!!!! Google Attribution-fantastic!

05/08/2017

Update -MailChimp is now offering automation free for all accounts

04/15/2017

A must read and must share with friends, family, and colleagues..do it now

This is a Wordfence public service security announcement for all users of Chrome and Firefox web browsers: There is a phishing attack that is receiving much attention today in the security community. As a reminder: A phishing attack is when an attacker sends you an email that contains a link to a m...

04/11/2017

Last week, while creating the Wordfence monthly attack report, we noticed that Algeria had moved from position 60 in our “Top Attacking Countries” list to position 24. That was a big jump and we were curious why Algeria had climbed the attack rankings so rapidly. What we discovered on closer examina...