Have you upgraded your WordPress site?
83% of hacked WordPress blogs have not been upgraded, so as you can see, not upgrading your WordPress install can put your website at a much greater increase of falling victim to a hack.
It’s also important to make sure you’re backing up before you upgrade, too.
Here’s the Ultimate Guide to Upgrade WordPress:
We have talked about the theological implications of hackers and how we as Christians should respond as well as the latest in security measures to prevent the future of hacking. But there is a whole world of hackers that have not been talked about.
For some, hacking is all about money or revenge.
For others, it is boredom or power, not necessarily about the hacking itself.
But the group that we will be looking at are the hactivists: hacking to do something good by preventing evil.
In a spiritual sense, the opposite is true.
However, when it comes to having your computer infected by a computer virus, unfortunately, religious websites are more dangerous than porn websites.
My brain just imploded when I first read this.
Can you believe that Religious Websites Are More Dangerous Than Porn Sites?
It’s wrong on so many levels.
According to the Symantec Internet Security Threat Report (2011), religious/ideological websites are three times more likely, on average, to be infected with malware than porn sites.
Why?
Let’s be honest, we all know someone who either has a kid or our own children who has a Facebook account and does not adhere to Facebook’s policy that you must be at least 13 years of age to sign up. For youth workers like myself, this becomes a tricky situation.
Do we tattle or be cool?
As parents, it is also grey because you essentially “sign off” on them getting an account, but do you really know all the fears of letting them on social network and do you really know what your child is doing online? [Did you know it's illegal to do this?]
Did you know that a new European Law makes over 90% of websites illegal?
Crazy, right?
Once again, we see that lawmakers are grappling at making new laws about a technology they do not understand.
Take a look:
After months and months of speculation around the release of Google Drive, it finally came.
Of course, a big drop like this wouldn’t be complete without some fierce debate about privacy policies, right?
Right.
Take this tweet for instance:
One of Apple’s big selling points is not needing to worry about catching one of those nasty computer viruses floating around the interwebs. However, as Apple gets bigger and bigger, this becomes less and less the case. In fact, hackers see Apple users as soft targets, since they rarely have any kind of protection.
Did you know that 1 in 5 Macs contain Windows malware and 1 in 36 Macs contain Mac malware?
Yeah. Neither did I.
Here’s what I did, and you can, too!
We have addressed the many different hackers, including Anonymous, on this site from afar. Articles like should Christians support them and making your code look like a hacker’s are fun ways of talking about the issue.
Some of the hacking groups have seemingly “noble causes” to bring down “the man” while others are just looking to steal money or wreck an organization. In the recent months, governments have put online defense as a top priority as the threats have grown larger.
But the activities of these hackers have real and financial impacts for many organizations and people. Most of the time, breaches happen because of ignorance or laziness. Proactivity can go a long way.
We have already talked about the buzz around universities and businesses who are requiring that you give them your Facebook passwords to protect their reputation and prevent negative things being said about them.
The controversy is around the legality and ethics of the issues from these companies. Can they be allowed to do such a thing?
Facebook and the ACLU would say no and they are willing to go to court to protect their users.
This infographic has quite a few interesting things to note that businesses should look at if they “truly want to protect themselves.”
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