Hiding/renaming your login does not do much, although you may think it is a great additional protection for your website. That is “security through obscurity” (STO), which is not really protection.

What does “security through obscurity” (STO) mean?

STO is primarily based on hiding important information and enforcing secrecy as the main security technique. Some people believe that by using security by obscurity, they can minimize the risk of an attack.

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Dear customers.
We’re so happy to announce that now you can pay for Virusdie by UnionPay bank cards! UnionPay is a Chinese financial services company that works in more than 180 countries. And now we support UnionPay cards for Virusdie subscriptions!

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Dear customers.
After the 3 month of reconfiguration the Virusdie’ infrastructure we may say that now Virusdie global service runs nodes in US and Europe. The DNS update for CDN now completed. Why we did that? It is simple: Better stability. Better performance. Reduce political risks.

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Dear customers and friends. On April 2022 we’re going to start the open BETA test for the new generation of Virusdie cloud website security tools. We’re almost ready for that. This BETA will be available for everyone by a click on your current Virusdie dashboard. I mean you’ll be able to jump (switch) between new and current User interface whenever you want to check that out how the new one works and help us make it better. Not all features ‘ll be available for BETA, but the majority of them!

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Dear customers. Due to Virusdie website firewall update on February 9th, 2022 there was a possible bug missed probably. Probably, that bug may cause a server error 500 on your websites for websites runs web-server PHP 8.1 with a combination of a specific set of other server-side software or plugins. So that may be possible not for all websites and not for all web-servers, but for web-servers runs PHP 8.1 and a number of installed additional software only.

WHAT NOW IF YOU FACED WITH ERROR 500?
If you face with an error 500 Yesterday,- you may turn off the website firewall to back website online immediately.

BUGFIX:
We made a patch and the rolling out process been initiated to fix all these possible issues in-place on your websites. Meanwhile, if you already faced with error 500 – your website firewall can’t update automatically. Please follow the instructions here below:

1. The new version of the firewall endpoint now rolling out across the Virusdie network. That takes several hours. All updates in place for websites.

2. For some cases for those who runs php 8.1 plus a combination of other software – If you found your site been resolved with 500 error previously, please turn off then turn on website firewall to initiate its update.

You may always ask our support for the help – just create a ticket via your dashboard.

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The workplace was a great place for people to work remotely, but as that became more difficult, many employees were burned out. Now that work and life have merged, this burnout is even more apparent. It affects employees’ decisions and impacts the way they work. Most security experts agree that access controls are the most important aspect of an organization’s IT security strategy. However, they disagree on who should control access and why.

Companies are feeling the effects of employee burnout. More than ever, employees need to stay healthy, stay safe, and stay productive while working from home. For most of us, the job we have today is the one we will have for the rest of our careers. Understanding how the workplace is changing can help us be more successful and efficient.

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Hey hey, brave pirates for Virusdie! Here is the new pack of upgraded features and fixed bugs to deliver more value to you with Virusdie stability and convenience! Upgrades for website firewall, security tools landing page, WordPress plugin and add-on for WHMCS. Bugs fixed for blacklist monitoring alerts and landing page!

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Hey hey, brave pirates for Virusdie! Here is the new pack of upgraded features and fixed bugs to deliver more value to you with Virusdie stability and convenience! Upgrades for website firewall and summary reports. Bugs fixed for summary reports and alerts and the website firewall as well!

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Hey hey, brave pirates for Virusdie! Here is the new pack of fixed bugs to deliver more value to you with Virusdie stability and convenience! Bugs fixed for scheduling scanning, website firewall, domains and reports.

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Why software vulnerabilities cause security risks? Running WordPress or any other CMS (content management system) without adequate security is like owning a warehouse and leaving the key under a mat for thieves. But even with security, hacking is becoming a new reality for many Internet entrepreneurs, content publishers, and digital media retailers.

Attackers can easily access your confidential and private data after hacking your digital property. You can lose significant market share once you learn that your websites and applications have been compromised.

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A WordPress plugin is an application that allows you to add new functionality to your WordPress site. Just like apps do for your smartphone.

If you are familiar with WordPress, you have probably encountered what’s called the “Repository of free WordPress plugins”. Essentially, the repository is a large digital repository of free WordPress plugins that can be installed with a few clicks through the admin interface of WordPress itself on any website that uses – WordPress.

Currently, the repository contains almost 60,000 plugins with over one billion and 240 million downloads. Each of these plugins (at least most of them) brings certain features to a WordPress website, to put it in layman’s terms – they enhance its capabilities. But are these plugins safe to use, who creates them, maintains them, and who even reviews the plugins before they appear in the official WordPress plugin repository?

The creator and co-founder of WordPress CMS is Matt Mullenweg while his company Automattic Corporation owns WordPress.com. Every plugin published there goes through a manual review before it becomes publicly available.

But is everything as secure and vetted? The recent interesting incidents suggest that there are loopholes in the WordPress plugin ecosystem that can be abused to hack and infect a large number of websites. Let us see how and why.

Authors of the WordPress Plugins

The authors of the plugins in the free WordPress repository are people with different profiles, from all over the world, with different programming skills, with different goals and intentions. It’s a motley crew that’s hard to describe in a few sentences.

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Hurray! We’re so excited to announce Virusdie plugin for WordPress websites! What is this? This is the most easiest automatic website security plugin for WordPress in the industry with highest performance in the industry! An explosion blend of simplicity and power you are all love!

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Logs are perhaps one of the most valuable tools available to troubleshoot issues with systems and applications. Logs are hardly new or controversial; in fact, both developers and administrators have been using them for a very long time to understand why things break down and how to fix them.

Logs come in all shapes and sizes, from security and performance logs to activity logs – different systems and processes collect different records. Regardless of the type, logs include a list of events that happen within the application’s or system’s confines, listed in chronological order. In particular, activity logs record activities occurring within a system or application, such as WordPress.

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All WordPress files: themes, plugins and downloads are stored on your website and can become a real mess.

What Are the Benefits of Understanding WordPress File and Directory Structure?

You don’t have to know anything about WordPress to run a WordPress website. You can, however, solve many common problems by understanding how WordPress saves files and uses directories.

You can achieve that by following this guide:

– Understand which WordPress files and folders are part of core;
– To understand how WordPress stores your images and media in a library;
– Where WordPress stores themes and plugins;
– Where WordPress configuration files are stored;
– With this information, you’ll also know which WordPress files should be backed up.

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SEO is a complicated, ever-changing game. If you find that traffic on your website has suddenly dropped, the culprit could be the search engine. This problem should be addressed as soon as possible, as a decline in search engine rankings can result not only in potential customers leaving, but also in lost sales.

Fortunately, there is truth to the matter. You can file a complaint and affect the penalties, but it is important to know how to recognize if your website has been penalized and how to check the result. Our article gives you some tips on how to accomplish that.

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WordPress is a great platform for building websites. It is easy to use and has an active community to help you when things go wrong. However, there are some issues with the software itself: Many plugins and themes have been abandoned by their developers or are simply no longer maintained. This can lead to security issues and other bugs on your site. And if you do not update them regularly, they could even be used as attack vectors against your website!

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Phishing is a form of online fraud – phishing emails and phishing websites are used as bait to steal personal information and identities, usually following on from emptying bank computers or damaging businesses.

Online scams are not unknown to us. There is hardly anyone who has not received an email in our bad native language from an unknown victim who has a million dollars in his account and for some unknown reason cannot get to it, so he needs our selfless help and personal information to selflessly share his treasure with us later. The messages are varied and fanciful, but it is immediately clear that this is a scam, an online fraud attempt, criminal activity under a common name – phishing.

Just as the messages and the addresses they were sent from resemble some real-life situations and known addresses, the word phishing, when pronounced, sounds like “phishing,” which means “fishing” in English language. Fishing, angling, hunting in the mud, that’s exactly what phishing is at its core, and the methods are different and more sophisticated.

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Hurray! We’re so happy to inform you that now, after a long-long night of hardwork, the transfer of all our sign in and sign up and verification services been completed! And now it runs AWS – Amazon Web Servces. Why we did that? It is simple, to get more flexibility in grow. To host our project in US to get lowest ping time for the majority of our clients. And to fix email delivery and DNS issue as well!

Next, we’ll transfer our main infrastructure to AWS as well! Stay tuned!

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Nowadays, hackers have various ways to break into and hack various websites and accounts. Unfortunately, with the blossoming and advancement of technology, there are more and more hackers, so there is a growing chance that you will come across a hacker at some point, especially if you’re well-known on the Internet and make money from it.

One of the methods receiving email from hackers with a cooperation proposal. For example, if you make a recording for YouTube, they will send you a link to their app and tell you that they will pay you lot of money if you advertise their new product on your YouTube channel. However, this is not a real app, but when you click on the link, the hacker gets the information they need to hack your website.

Another option is a password recognition program. This program randomly outputs a large number of various combinations of numbers, letters and special characters to guess your password. Such programs can output over 1.000 combinations per minute. So, it is no wonder that after a few hours or maybe even days of continuous operation, it will come across your password.

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On May 3, 1978, the first spam message was sent via email. The culprit was Gary Thuerk, which sent propaganda material to 293 different addresses on what was then ARPANET (the precursor to the Internet, developed within the US Department of Defense).

The material sent contained an advertisement for new computers from DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation). Recipients of the initial spam were upset, but the whole promotion still led to an increase in sales of these computers. The name SPAM for such messages comes from a sketch by Monty Python, where it referred to a kind of canned dish, similar to a meat breakfast, that appears as an ingredient in all dishes in a restaurant.

Today, electronic spam accounts for 80-85% of all global email traffic. The leading spam generator in the world is the US (13.21%), followed by China (11.25%), Vietnam (9.85%), India (7.02%) and Germany (5.66%).

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