If you have a .com domain for your hyperlocal site you may find that you get an E-mail like the one below around about the same time as the domain registration needs to be renewed, telling you that you need to submit a payment for you ‘search engine registration’ There is no need to submit [...]
Tag Archive for Security
Quick password security tip for your WordPress blog
A quick security related post for your wordpress blogs. I’m going to tell you about the importance of having a secure password *yawn* and also the benefits of having a different username. Passwords Always use strong passwords on your wordpress blog, this is a given, everyone tells you to have a strong password and wordrpress [...]
Twitter Spam
There seems to have been an increase in Twitter spam over the past week, with people sending out tweets like ‘Is this you in this photo [link]‘ or ‘I’m sure this is you in this video [link]‘ and ‘Want to make between $3000 & $8000 a month click here [link]‘. The first and most important [...]
WordPress.org Security Advisory
If you have migrated your site from the hosted wordpress.com to self hosted wordpress.org they there is a security warning that you need to be aware of if you use the following plugins [checklist] WPTouch AddThis W3 Total Cache [/checklist] See this post on wordpress.org for full details. [geolocation] Possibly Related Posts:Quick password security tip [...]
Twitter & OAuth
More and more of us are using Twitter to communicate or to promote our hyperlocal sites. Until recently (yesterday!) you had to authorise the different applications you use to automagically tweet out about your latest posts with your username & password. This as I’m sure you are all aware posed some security risks, we have [...]