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That looks it is time to learn something new and important. Daria, the head of Anti-malware database (BASE) at Virusdie is going to improve your skills and share some details about the dangerous SEO-spam campaign against WordPress websites. That campaign been recently discovered and processed by Virusdie BASE team so, that is fair to share some knowledge with you, right? 🙂

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The Internet is a vast ocean. It can change your life for better or for worse. If you are reading this, you have probably heard of WordPress. This content management system is used by millions of people around the world. It’s incredibly popular and has been for quite some time.

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WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems (CMS) in the world. More than 60% of all websites use it as a CMS. This means that it is the first choice for businesses that need to create a website for their company or organization. It is also the ideal choice for bloggers who want an easy way to publish and manage their blog posts from anywhere with internet access.

However, because WordPress is so popular, it has also attracted malicious users who try to hack websites running it in order to steal user data or inject malware. And since malicious users are always looking for new ways to break into WordPress sites, many WordPress website owners want to protect their websites from hackers, especially businesses that are more likely than others to be targeted by cybercriminals.

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The term access point refers to the wireless router that connects your wired network to your wireless network.

Your business needs an access point for several reasons, including being able to connect more devices at once and share files wirelessly. With an access point, you can extend your wired network beyond the office with high-speed Internet service, making it easier for employees who work from home or remote locations to connect to other resources and share files securely with remote colleagues or team members.

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How big is the WordPress platform? It is the most popular website platform in the world. Here is everything you need to know about the size and importance of this platform. The average WordPress website has about 10,000 pages. You can install WordPress with any hosting provider, and the WordPress community is the largest in the world.

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Why WordPress sites need plugins (as “necessary evil”)?
Plugins are add-ons that you install on your WordPress site to add new functionality to it. Plugins are not Pokemon and you do not need to collect them all. Too many non-quality plugins will slow down a site (especially if they have interoperability issues), and we all know that Google does not like slow sites. If you are aiming for a high search engine position, choose carefully which and how many plugins you will install.

It is quite easy to install them.

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Hacker attacks are becoming more dangerous, so take a look at this great cybersecurity guide.

Have we relaxed too much on the Internet?
The Internet environment has changed a lot in recent years. We are all constantly online, present on social networks, shopping online and have relaxed a bit, doing our jobs and building our careers online.

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Have you ever had a problem with your computer that you could not solve by yourself? Maybe you could ask your friend to help you solve it? What if he/she could not find a solution?

Do not forget about frequent hacker attacks, which can cause you big problems and financial damages, but also damage your reputation. This is the point where IT Support comes into play. Today we will find out what IT Support is and why it is so important.

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WordPress can be a great website platform. But it is also extremely popular, which means that hackers and malware authors target it.

WordPress is not easy to manage. To make things easier, you can use some WordPress maintenance and support services. These companies can help you maintain your WordPress website and take care of security, patches, backups and more.

If you are a serious website owner or an agency owner looking to expand your business, you have the solution out there. There are many WordPress maintenance and support services that offer white label site management.

One of the big problems that may arise for you when it comes to SEO is if your website gets infected with malware and you have no security tools/services to clean it up.

You cannot ignore the warnings if your website gets malware infection. You could be removed from search engines and your SEO rankings will take a big drop, which will lead to a big traffic loss and in consequence profit. Make sure your site is malware free by using some of the best security services that are available on the Internet.

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A few days ago, I received an email from our long-time client (we built his website and redesigned it several times over the years). He wrote something like the following:
“I think someone broke into my email or website. I received this as a test. Please check it out (ASAP)!”, (and he forwarded the problematic email he received).

After we checked everything necessary (including checking his website with Virusdie), I found that no one had broken into his website (or email).

The customer had received a fake email. But he could not recognize it and his first thought was that someone had hacked him.

That’s when I realized that I need to explain the whole process of email spoofing so that you can recognize such (fake) mails, but also (and more importantly) to protect yourself from email spoofing.

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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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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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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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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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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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