7 Tips for Protecting Your Website

For many people, website security is an intimidating topic. It seems like there’s an endless list of things necessary for protecting your website. And while resources like our Website Security Guide cut through much of the clutter of the threat … Continue reading 7 Tips for Protecting Your Website

Let’s Encrypt Issued A Billion Free SSL Certificates in the Last 4 Years

Let’s Encrypt, a free, automated, and open certificate signing authority (CA) from the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), has said it’s issued a billion certificates since its launch in 2015.

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How to Find & Remove SEO Spam on WordPress

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Is My Site Hacked?

It’s a day every website owner fears. You open the website you’ve poured your time, energy, and money into, only to find your home page looking very different.
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Abused Cloudflare Workers Service Used to Inject Korean SEO Spam

We were recently contacted by a website owner about some malicious injected spam links that were being indexed by Google’s search engine crawler Googlebot.
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What is Ransomware?

Ransomware has been one of the scariest topics in cybersecurity for years – and for good reason.
Living up to its name, ransomware is a type of malware where a bad actor blocks access to data or applications until payment is received. In other w… Continue reading What is Ransomware?

App Used by Israel’s Ruling Party Leaked Personal Data of All 6.5 Million Voters

An election campaigning website operated by Likud―the ruling political party of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu―inadvertently exposed personal information of all 6.5 million eligible Israeli voters on the Internet, just three weeks before the… Continue reading App Used by Israel’s Ruling Party Leaked Personal Data of All 6.5 Million Voters

Spamdexing: What is SEO Spam and How to Remove It

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Is Your Web Host Taking Cybersecurity Seriously?

If you’ve read our article on website security tips, and taken all the necessary steps to secure your new website before it goes live, well done. You are clearly taking your own security seriously. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for many web h… Continue reading Is Your Web Host Taking Cybersecurity Seriously?