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As we go through the winter months and whether changes, many of us go to our local pharmacy and take advantage of a flu shot. We do this because maybe we have had the flu before and the second of pain from the jab is nothing in comparison to the hours and days of sickness from catching the flu bug. 

As everyone’s grandparents tell them, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Keeping strong cyber security hygiene to prevent hacks saves you from expensive remediation costs, compromised data and a weakened WordPress immune system. Did you know that breached sites are more likely to fall victim to additional attacks?

Follow these 10 WordPress security tips to keep your site from falling ill from malware this winter season.

1 – Use MFA 

Having one or two additional…

Kevin Jackson was vacationing on the other side of the country when Liquid Cargo was hit with a ransomware attack in 2017.

The moment he realized he isn’t immune is seared into his memory.

It was close to midnight Friday, Feb. 17, to be exact, and the start of a holiday weekend before President’s Day the following Monday, meaning the now anxiety-filled Liquid Cargo and U.S. Container Depot president had little hope of resolving the situation quickly—or of fully enjoying his stay in California.

The entire ordeal disrupted Jackson’s West Palm Beach, Fla.-based bulk transportation and logistics operations for nearly two weeks, and cost him five bitcoins—at the time a nominal ransom, especially by today’s standards—to unlock the encrypted data, restore their systems, and…

Hackers have, since September, accessed usernames, passwords, email addresses and SSL private keys for GoDaddy customers by compromising their Managed WordPress hosting environment.

The US-based Internet domain registrar and web hosting company said an unauthorised third party accessed GoDaddy’s provisioning system in its legacy code base for Managed WordPress using a compromised password.

The adversary began exploiting the vulnerability on September 6, and GoDaddy discovered the unauthorised access on November 17, according to the company.

“We are sincerely sorry for this incident and the concern it causes for our customers,” GoDaddy chief information security officer Demetrius Comes said in a statement. “We, GoDaddy leadership and employees, take our…

The company logo and ticker for GoDaddy Inc. is displayed on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., March 4, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

Nov 22 (Reuters) – Web hosting company GoDaddy Inc (GDDY.N) said on Monday email addresses of up to 1.2 million active and inactive Managed WordPress customers had been exposed in an unauthorized third-party access.

The company said the incident was discovered on Nov. 17 and the third-party accessed the system using a compromised password.

“We identified suspicious activity in our Managed WordPress hosting environment and immediately began an investigation with the help of an IT forensics firm and contacted law enforcement,” Chief Information Security Officer Demetrius Comes said in a filing.

The company, whose…