The fact that WordPress is widely used is already known to almost everyone by now. This is mainly due to the fact that WordPress is freely accessible and easy to learn. This makes it one of the most popular systems and makes it a popular target for malicious people. It is therefore important that you always keep everything as up to date as possible. It can also happen that despite everything being up to date certain plug-ins are still abused. For example 3 popular plug-ins that are used frequently
Most people consider their own privacy and security to be extremely important and therefore like to protect their data. It can't always be easy to protect it sometimes you don't even know where to start. For example if you have a web shop then it is also important to protect the data on your hosting. In this blog post we will go through exactly how you can best protect your privacy on the Internet. Passwords Perhaps one of the most important things you should take into account is your passwords.
In 2019 the SIDN took almost 4500 fake stores offline. They managed this thanks to a self-learning detection tool developed by SIDN Labs. With this tool Dutch domain registrations are continuously scanned. It looks for features that are more often found in fake webshops. For example no contact option no KVK number no reviews suspicious domain names etc. This self-learning tool turns out to be very good as it achieves a security percentage of 79.3 percent. How do I recognize fake stores? As a consumer
Most people who are on the Internet are probably familiar with various scam methods. These include scam methods such as phishing phone scams and many others. Domains are also often used for scams such as sending phantom invoices. We have recently received more and more reports from our customers. You will be approached by a party called "DNS Service NL" with an invoice for your domain. If you receive an email from this party it is recommended to ignore it and block the sender. How do I recognize
Most people who are on the Internet are probably familiar with various scam methods. These include scam methods such as phishing phone scams and many others. Domains are also often used for scams such as sending phantom invoices. We have recently received more and more reports from our customers. You will be approached by a party called "DNS Service NL" with an invoice for your domain. If you receive an email from this party it is recommended to ignore it and block the sender. How do I recognize
Most people nowadays download something from the Internet fairly often. You can think of different things pictures movies files and so on. Often you will not pay attention to whether the download is over http or https. In the future Google Chrome will block downloads over http. In general this will not make much difference to you unless you have files on your Hosting that you can only download over http. It is advisable to change this as soon as possible to https this can be done with an SSL certificate.
If you have your own business that depends on a website and its hosting the security of this is very important. After all you don't want your website to be abused to carry out attacks for example. To prevent that you need to take the right measures to protect your own website. In this blog post we will discuss some of the things you can do to protect your website. Updates One of the most important things you can do to keep your website safe is to download updates. Especially when you're using WordPress
Microsoft has found that 44 million of their users have their data online. The affected users have also received an email from Microsoft asking them to change their passwords. According to Microsoft themselves they have been investigating leaked data in recent times. This mainly involved data that hackers got hold of during a data leak. Between January and March Microsoft conducted this investigation. They scanned 3 billion logins and compared them with their own database. This research showed
If you own a business or have a web store this is probably one of the worst things that can happen to you. A virus on your website can cause a lot of damage to your business as well as your visitors. Of course you want your hosting to be protected against this at all times. Therefore in this blog post we are going to go through what you can do about it and what some of the causes of this might be. How do viruses get on my website? It is important to know where viruses come from so you can protect
