by Mohsin Sumar | Sep 20, 2020 | Security, Web Hosting, Wordpress
WordPress websites are commonly compromised to do a variety of malicious behaviours so there isn’t a one fix solution to all the WordPress problems out there. I hope that this quick read helps someone sometime to clear off left behind files from a recent...
by Mohsin Sumar | Oct 15, 2018 | Security
Over the past few weeks, some people have received emails from themselves claiming that a hacker has stolen their passwords and hacked their webcam, threatening to expose your data, as well as browsing habits if you do not remit to them some bitcoins valued between...
by Mohsin Sumar | Sep 30, 2018 | Extreme Web Technologies, Security, Tutorials, Web Hosting, Web Presence
Your website should most likely be labelled with “Not Secure”. What does it mean, and how do you get it fixed? BackgroundNearly two years ago, Google announced that Chrome would eventually start marking all sites that are not encrypted with HTTPS as...
by Mohsin Sumar | Apr 26, 2017 | Security, Server Management, Web Hosting
The very first email was sent about 45 years ago, in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson. Tomlinson is internationally known and credited as the inventor of email. The Internet Hall of Fame in account of his work commented “His email program brought about a complete...
by Mohsin Sumar | Nov 27, 2009 | Apache, PHP, Security, Tips & Tricks
If you’ve stumbled across this post, then you’ve recently become a victim of the most famous way of uploading a malicious script to a website – PHP file uploads. Many websites and web applications that are developed using PHP & MySQL allow users...