It is increasingly important to have an SSL certificate on your website. You will be higher in the Google ranking and you see a lock in the url bar of your website. Nowadays it is important to have an SSL certificate. If you do not have one then browsers like Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox will display a message that your website is unsafe. What is a SSL certificate? Before you purchase an SSL certificate on your hosting it is important that you know exactly what it entails. SSL stands for Secure
Last week the secret service in Ukraine arrested someone suspected of selling 773 mail addresses. The suspect in question used the username "Sanix" online and also sold other stolen data. You can think of account passwords pin codes paypal accounts and so on. This is the largest list of personal data ever leaked. When you see this you are probably shocked and probably want to protect your account better. We're going to go over exactly how to secure your accounts in this blog post. Also the police
Whether it's on your hosting or on your local PC malware is something you need to protect yourself against. This is because it can cause a lot of damage on both your computer and your website. In order to know how to prevent it it is also important to know exactly what it entails. In this blog post we're going to go over what different types of malware there are and what you can do to protect yourself from them. Ransomware Perhaps the most damaging of all is ransomware which completely denies access
Nowadays extra security on your hosting website and e-mail for example is increasingly important. After all you don't want your services to be abused by malicious people. For this reason nowadays the use of 2 factor authentication is very important. This is activated as soon as you try to log in somewhere you get a push notification or a code on your phone. You then need to fill in the code further and after this you will be logged in. We have added 2 factor authentication in the most recent update
In our previous Blog post we talked about how WooCommerce websites were abused by a leak. Now earlier this week it was revealed that WordPress websites running the Onetone-Theme were targeted for attacks. This has to do with the fact that this theme is no longer updated by the developers. As a result the theme has therefore also been removed from the WordPress. In this attack it was possible for the attacker to install a backdoor around the website. From here they could retrieve the administrator
Your own website and the hosting that comes with it are of course extremely important. Most people will therefore always try to keep their website online as much as possible. There are several things you should do to make sure your website is online as much as possible. In this blog post we will also go through what exactly you can do to prevent as much downtime as possible. Updates Updates are extremely important for your website especially for a CMS like WordPress. These updates often contain
In our previous blog post we went through how to maintain your website. Maintenance also contributes to the security of your website after all you don't want your website to be abused. For this reason we decided to make a follow-up blog post of this topic. In this blog post we will talk about how you can make your website a lot safer. Hide your admin page For WordPress hosting this is an excellent option because you can find out the admin page very easily. You can reach the WordPress admin page
Most people who are familiar with hosting are probably already familiar with let's encrypt certificates. These are free SSL certificates that you can activate for your websites. It has been shown that in the last 4 years more than 1 billion free certificates have been delivered. Let's encrypt Let's encrypt delivered the first certificate in September 2015 and reached a milestone of 100 million certificates in June 2017. Since last year let's encrypt has been delivering more than 1 million certificates
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
