Most of us don't even spend a second a day thinking about boring backups and how to restore our files, until the day our computer crash! The question we ask then is: Did I have something important on the computer? When we actually should think: Alright, lets restore everything! Continue Reading
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The news that one of the most important people to the technology development for the last 30 year had passed away in cancer hadn't been publicly known for more than an hour or so before the first scam sites started showing up in the search engine results. The vultures where already profiting from the death [...] Continue Reading
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In the first part of this blog post series I wrote about the hack against user accounts on several popular sites like Facebook and Salesforce. I also mentioned that it's easy to secure your own site from this problem by using a SSL certificate, so in this blog post we will focus on redirecting your [...] Continue Reading
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About a week ago I wrote a short post about Online File Folder and now it's time for a follow up post with a practical example on how to use the Online File Folder. This post will be about backing up your WordPress blog to an off-server location that's safe and far away from your [...] Continue Reading
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Say goodbye to the hassle of carrying around storage disks, removable memory, or emailing important files to yourself! Online File Folder gives you secure, 24/7 access to your most important files from any computer with an Internet connection — just log in to retrieve, store or share everything from business reports to personal videos. Continue Reading
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The latest security breach at WordPress.org where someone (most likely) have guessed or used brute force to find out the passwords for some of the plugin authors and insert malicious code into their plugins, shows that using the same password for multiple services could be really dangerous for both you and your customers/partners. Continue Reading
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Yesterday Dropbox updated their code and a bug was introduced that made it possible to login at any account without the correct password. So for 4 hours it was possible for anyone to access any account. Continue Reading
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Dropbox is a fantastic way of saving and also sharing your files, not only for easy access between your own computers but also to share with others. If you're going to save file of a more private nature in Dropbox, then you should consider encrypting them first. Continue Reading
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Instead of trying to keep our inbox clean from spam, we should stop payment so that spammers do not receive any income according to security researchers from several universities in California. Continue Reading
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Earlier in May I wrote about a plugin for WordPress blogs that will limit the number of login attempts you can make before you get blocked. This is purely done to protect your blog from brute force attacks where someone tries passwords until they find a matching one. Continue Reading
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Even if we all know pretty well what we should do to security our WordPress blogs, it's easy to forget to setup some of the security measure or simply just set them up incorrectly. Therefore we've created a free security scan! Continue Reading
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