Security

Best site security discussions usually revolve around changes to your login, or adding plugins. But those things alone will not fully protect your site. Much of the low-hanging fruit for hackers actually lies outside your site. Here are easy steps you can take that will make your site, and every other online account you have, more secure.

DDoS, Brute Force, botnet, hacked – these are just a few of the words that have become common place for site owners this year. None of us wanted thoughts of site security to consume our day. We’ve got important things to do! But here we are, in the midst of the highest sustained bot attack in history.

Why is this happening? What can we do about it? The one thing you can’t do is ignore it, whether you’re a site owner or not.

If you own any smart device hooked to the Internet, you’re involved, and affected, and it’s going to take all of us to shut the cyber-attacks down. See how you can be part of the solution.

A single hacker took down the HootSuite service in a DoS attack on March 20 2014. That’s the scariest part of the whole story. One hacker disabled a major online service. Here’s what you need to know about the difference in a DoS and a DDoS attack and how to protect your site.