by Ellyse Dwyer | Mar 19, 2020 | Blog, Security, Web Hosting
Email Spoofing and Spam You may hear these terms thrown around a little bit but what do they actually mean? Let’s start with email spam, by definition spam means to send unsolicited messages in bulk via email or other means. I’m sure almost everyone should be familiar...
by Ellyse Dwyer | Jan 30, 2020 | Blog, Security, Web Hosting
Hi everyone, about a week and a half ago WordPress released a maintenance update titled WordPress Version 5.2.3. Within it were several minor security and quality of life fixes. Here’s a link to the patch notes. Version 5.2.3 If you read through those notes you might...
by Ellyse Dwyer | Jan 23, 2020 | Blog, Security, Web Hosting
Hi everyone, this is a public service announcement to spread awareness of a series of new exploits being used to hack WordPress sites. The hack in questions uses a few vulnerabilites in WordPress plugins to plant code in the back end of your site resulting in...
by Ellyse Dwyer | Jan 16, 2020 | Blog, Security, Web Hosting
Hello everyone, WordPress has recently released their newest rendition of their software and have titled it ‘Kirk’. I’d like to start by reminding everyone to update their WordPress because as always this one came with several security patches that improve the quality...
by Ellyse Dwyer | Oct 27, 2019 | Blog, Security
Here at Hosting Australia our developers have noticed a concerning trend. We are seeing more and more incidences of WordPress websites being hacked or compromised in someway. Unfortunately, we are seeing one common theme. Inevitably, access to website has been made...
