By markh, on June 22nd, 2011
On Tuesday 21st June WordPress.org found several popular WordPress plugins hacked in their popular WordPress plugin repository.
Almost every WordPress website uses plugins from this repository, so this attack could expose tens of thousands of websites, and all their website visitors, to an enormous security risk.
Hackers had modified several popular plugins to give . . . → Read More: Security Alert: WordPress Plugins Hacked & WordPress.org Resets All Passwords
By markh, on May 26th, 2011
Suddenly, with the recent EU Directive on Privacy/Website Cookies it has become important to understand what cookies your website creates and when. If you need to analyse website cookies, see what functions create/access them and when, this post explains how.
See also: How To Get Ready For The EU Cookie Directive to find out if your . . . → Read More: How To See/Monitor The Cookies A Website Creates?
By markh, on May 26th, 2011
The EU Privacy directive affecting website cookies came into force in UK law on 26 May 2011, and applies not just to UK based websites but any website that caters for people in the European market—wherever the company is based. That means every website visited by people in the EU, including those outside the . . . → Read More: What’s The EU Privacy/Cookie Directive & What Do I Have Do About It?
By markh, on May 11th, 2011
Protecting Your Privacy On Facebook
You may have noticed that sometimes your friends appear to endorse products in facebook adverts like the one shown here. What’s wrong with this you may wonder, after all, you did ‘Like’ this, so maybe its ok for facebook to show your endorsement on the advert too?
What’s . . . → Read More: How To Stop Facebook Using Your Actions To Promote Products
By markh, on May 10th, 2011
No-one wants their facebook account hacked, but it is especially important if you use facebook for business. A hacker can cause damage not only to you, but to your friends and customers, and their friends and so on.
The cost to your customers can be high, which in turn can severely damage . . . → Read More: How To Prevent Your Account Being Hacked On Facebook
By markh, on April 28th, 2011
Protect Your Privacy Online
Did you know that facebook could be using you personal photos for any purpose, including advertising? Not just by facebook, but by other companies too.
Do you want your personal photos appearing in public advertising on facebook and elsewhere without your explicit permission? If not, there’s a simple remedy.
Facebook . . . → Read More: How To Stop Facebook Using Your Photos In Advertising
By markh, on March 17th, 2011
It is important not to use a password for more than one online service unless you’re ok with them all being hacked. Because if one service is hacked a hacker can quickly gain access to your other services.
Of course, there’s a good reason why you might re-use passwords—its hard to remember . . . → Read More: How To Not Re-use Your Password
By markh, on March 17th, 2011
A good password is a strong password: is a password which is long, contains numbers, letters, mixed case and no real words or guessable information—best not use your date of birth, cat’s name, phone number etc. A strong password is also long—at least ten characters long.
This of course makes it hard . . . → Read More: How To Choose a Good Password You Will Remember
By markh, on March 16th, 2011
Secure browsing means that information transferred between your computer and facebook will be encrypted and so can’t be intercepted and read by a hacker or anyone else (e.g. over a wireless network, or as it passes over the internet).
To Enable Secure Browsing:
Log into facebook Choose “Account Settings” from the “Account” menu (top . . . → Read More: How To Enable Secure Browsing (https) On Facebook
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