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WordPress has been pushing out platform updates (versions) left and right lately, and usually that means some kind of security update or patch has been applied. WordPress provides 30% of the websites out in the world today, and it’s a HUGE target for overseas attackers.  Every time a vulnerability is found, WordPress (as an organization) has to update the platform to plug the hole. Same thing goes for the plugins that people install on their WordPress sites!  Those need updating with regularity too so the site is protected against any new windows the hackers find. Consider the very affordable WordPress […]

For some reason, this seems to be a date that is seen all over the place with older websites. Well, at least this should be some indicator that the website hasn’t been touched in YEARS, and could probably use a review. Especially considering how many websites are hacked on a daily basis from overseas entities. Malware gets installed, redirects put in place, viruses uploaded.. and most times, the website owner has no idea that it’s even happening. Until their customer informs them.. that’s embarassing! It might be time to update the site code, or the hosting platform to be more […]

So there’s been a lot of conversation lately about the EU’s changes in enforcement of tech company’s privacy policies.  We wanted to let you all know that we take this very seriously since some of the folks who watch our live streams live in the EU. Starting this fall, any webcast we produce will have proper hash level encryption in place to properly store any private information on our own servers. This means that any data that is saved by us will be encrypted in such a way that it just looks like garbage to anyone who doesn’t have the […]

Well folks, WordPress drives about 25% of the websites out in the world right now, and by nature of how the platform works, it makes for a great target for hacking.  Russia and China are huge offenders according to WordFence, a big name in WordPress security! We’ve been doing a lot of WordPress fixing here at Lions Mane, whether its for Themes, plugins, or custom coding.  Our Lions Pride team has some pretty talented people, and we’re here if you need regular or periodic maintenance, or if you’ve been hacked or are afraid it could happen. Reach out and tell […]