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WordPress is the most straightforward and mainstream application for blogging. It is an open-source content administration framework with remarkable contributions to a blog framework, licensed as open source under the GPLv2. Everyone can use it freely.
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The best way to avoid being the victim of hacking is to avoid ways hackers get to you in the first place. This means following WordPress site management best practices. Some of the most common WordPress Security Issues are simply caused by bad habits and are easily fixed.
So here is a more in depth discussion of the bad habits, and 3 simple security tips to avoid them.
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Cybercrime, put simply, is any crime carried out over either a network or a computer (or both).
A criminal may have many different motives, be it to damage or disable a network, to spread malware and false information, to infect a computer or network with a virus, or to steal customer information from a company and then hold that information for ransom.
We also live in a world where cybercrime is a significantly greater threat than most people realize, with an average of one new hacker attack every 39 seconds.
This is just one of several startling statistics and trends that we are seeing today in 2018. Here are five more trends that we are seeing as well: [Read more…]