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Malware on your website If you have your own website or if you work a lot with computers you have probably heard of the term malware. Malware is a piece of software that can be used to retrieve personal information or damage your computer. This can happen not only on your computer but also on your website. Malware on your website can have various consequences for you and your users one of which is sending spam. They can also do less conspicuous things if you have a webshop for example the malware

More than 115 000 Drupal sites not protected against leak More than 115 000 Drupal sites not protected from vulnerability At MijnHostingPartner we think website security is one of the most interesting things out there. For example we recently found out that more than 115 000 Drupal websites were not protected against a particular leak. The leak goes around with the name Drupalgeddon2 this leak however has already been closed in the newer versions of Drupal. So we recommend all Drupal users to update

WordPress security If you have a WordPress website you are probably already familiar with the many updates. Many of these are security updates because they want to keep WordPress hosting as secure as possible. But what can you do to make your website extra secure? Read and write permissions A simple thing that can be done within seconds is to change the write permissions. You turn these on for example when you want to make a change to your website and turn them off again when you are finished. This

Is an SSL certificate important? An SSL certificate is in the recent years more and more in the news thanks also to the safe internet campaigns of the government and various agencies. They emphasize that you must pay attention to how your data is handled. An important part of this is an SSL certificate. This is an encryption that takes place at website level and ensures that the data the customer or visitor enters is secure. And not for example can be intercepted by someone who sits to WireShark.

Website security is an item that is very important and has great impact on sites. Therefore it is wise to keep your website as updated as possible already. And during the development of your website security should be a high priority. This way you can use your website with peace of mind and make a success of your website hosting ! What points should you take into account? Let's take a look at the different points. SSL certificates It's not news anymore and it's even mandatory for web shops to have

Stop SPAM in the mail We happened to see it pass by again an email pretending to be Marktplaats. Malicious people are getting more and more elaborate in order to imitate this as well as possible to make you fall for it. Before clicking on a link you should get used to hovering over it with your mouse. Then you'll see where you're going. This is the way it's done for almost every big name you know. From WeTransfer to phantom invoices from the SIDN. It is important to arm yourself against this with

WordPress sites infected with Cryptominer It is common knowledge that you need to keep your WordPress website up to date and secure if you want to ensure the safety of your visitors and yourself. Once in a while there is another WordPress misuse in the news. In early March a number of WordPress websites were hit by cryptominers. These are pieces of code that ensure that the end user's computer is used to mine or calculate crypto currency. There is a lot of money to be made with this. Miners The

How do you stop SPAM messages on your WordPress website? It is a common technique of bots and malicious for SEO or search engine ranking. Spamming your carefully crafted blog full of posts that don't make sense and do have a link in them to a website. They use this link to create backlinks to their website. This is a sneaky way to increase your results in search engines because it is seen as popularity of the spammer's website. Having your entire blog filled with SPAM not only looks unprofessional

1.4 trillion passwords An incredibly large database for cybercriminals has been discovered on an underground forum. This 41 GB database contains 1.4 trillion login credentials that have been passed around the Internet in bare text. The database has also already appeared on a number of torrent sites and on the Dark Web. This paves the way for uneducated and new hackers to own a treasure chest of data so to speak without knowledge or special actions. This is alarming as cybercrime is on the rise.