Hide Those Email Addresses from the Spammers! This post discusses two concepts: A: For viewer convenience, when you absolutely must have a ‘mailto:..’ email link visible on your website B: Remove all email addresses and use forms only A: email addresses on website, how to protect them? If your email address is visible on a website, then it…
“If you are collecting ANY sensitive information on your website (including email and password), then you need to be secure. One of the best ways to do that is to enable HTTPS, also known as SSL (secure socket layers), so that any information going to and from your server is automatically encrypted. The prevents hackers…
Recently the DACS website was “hacked”. A rogue script was inserted into the header of the pages. Several steps were taken to sanitize the WordPress installation and this fixed the problem – temporarily. However, security is an ongoing battle, and new threats and hacks appear all the time. The security breach was detected by the…
The trend is towards having a secure connection to a website. Google is starting to take this into consideration in their search results. If you don’t sell anything, how important and desirable is it, and how do we install it? If you have a simple form, such as a newsletter signup form, the data is…
WordPress plugins are additional “apps” that enhance the functionality of WordPress. WordPress works quite well “out of the box”, but chances are you’ll be installing several plugins before your new site is ready to go live. The best place to search for plugins is on https://wordpress.org/plugins/. These plugins have been tested and assumed to be safe. However,…
Danger lurks on the web, and a website is never totally immune to infiltration by the ‘bad guys’. Be they actual people or malicious automated code that roams the web, looking for an ‘open door’, to wriggle their way into your code. There are numerous reasons why this can happen, things such as weak and/or…