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Help! My Website Has Been Hacked!

    That was me last week. Again. Admittedly it was a few years since one of my sites was last hacked. This time it was two. It’s no fun. Even less fun is the support you may not get from your host. Mine was no help. Needless to say I had already done what I could to remove the malicious code. Still, the care factor was marginally above zero. Fortunately the attack was more for pride and vanity than to destroy any content or pillage (so far as I could tell). It’s a horrid feeling to realise your site has been attacked.… Read More »Help! My Website Has Been Hacked!

    * Tech Tip For The Day **

      Can People Easily Access Your Files? WordPress Users: Do this now – enter your website address in your browser with /wp-content/uploads at the end. If you can see anything like what you see in this image … … so can everyone else. And they can tap into anything in those links. This is a real danger if you use the upload feature to load in pdf files etc. By adding an empty index.php page in your uploads folder then you can block some unauthorized access! You can add an index.php to your download folder as well. What this does is… Read More »* Tech Tip For The Day **

      WordPress Security and Htaccess

        I’m always looking for ways to protect my sites after I was hacked a couple of times elsewhere. Came across these handy tips I thought I would share. http://thematosoup.com/tips/wordpress-security-htaccess/