Gary Eckstein WordPress 5 crazydomains, hacks, how to, malware, websites, WordPress
Hmei7, the hacker, has wreaked havoc on Australian WordPress Websites over the past weeks. I’m also hearing that South African Websites have also been hacked by him/her. I wrote a Post last week regarding Crazydomains WordPress Websites that have been hacked by Hmei7. You’ll know that you’ve been hacked as you’ll get a popup message in your Internet [...]
Gary Eckstein WordPress 6 malware, security, WordPress
WordPress Websites and Blogs get hacked. All Content Management (CMS) and other Website software gets hacked and as WordPress is so incredibly popular it makes sense that WordPress Sites will be hacked. Fortunately WordPress is actually very secure against malware and hackers. I offer services where I assist people and organizations to recover from hacked [...]
Gary Eckstein Internet 0 browsers, Cascading Style Sheets, Internet, JavaScript, Links, malware, scams, script, seo
Browser history sniffing is nothing new however continues to prompt debate; is it a black-hat, white-hat or grey-hat technique at identifying specifics of visitors to Websites? Browser history sniffing uses JavaScript and CSS (or Python) to identify Sites that the visitor has been to. This information may then be used for a multitude of purposes [...]
Gary Eckstein WordPress 0 Automattic, malware, security, VaultPress, WordPress
A while back I wrote about how one of my Sites was ‘hacked’ (the Posts were populated with iFrames). The hacking was nothing I could have prevented through WordPress however it is very welcome news that ValutPress is now being rolled out (by invite initially). I certainly look forward to taking advantage of the monitoring [...]
Gary Eckstein WordPress 5 AVG, godaddy, google, hosting, iframe, iframes, malware, mysql, patches, plugins, rss, search engines, security software, VaultPress, websites, WordPress, wordpress plugins
Recently one of my Websites was hacked (not this Website!). The hackers had managed to populate the WordPress site posts (Blogs) with iframes that redirected visitors to a suspicious Website. It appears that a SQL script was run on every post to replace the contents of the posts with the redirecting iframe (WordPress and all [...]
