Backup your WordPress website

Put this task to the top of every list you make.  Backups are the most important task that you can undertake.  If the worst happens, a current working backup ensures that you are back up and running in the shortest amount of time with the least amount of lost data. A successful and recommended backup […]

How To Minimise Spam – WordPress

With anything, there is an easy way and a hard way. So happens, there are a number of easy ways to stop WordPress comment spam. Before we get to the easy ways – the hard way is manually. Manually means logging into the backend of your site and looking through your comments and weeding out […]

What Is Spam?

WordPress is one of the most popular Content Management Systems (CMS) in the world.  It is because of its popularity that it is continually targeted by malicious hackers and spammers who seek to identify insecure websites and use these insecurities to their advantage. WHY SPAM? Spammers generally want you to look at them and click […]

Google adding DNS-over-TLS support to its Public DNS

Google will soon be adding DNS-over-TLS support to it Public DNS protocol to provide added security and privacy for users. Just like search queries can expose individuals’ sensitive information, so to can DNS expose a user’s domains that have been looked up.  Adding TLS to DNS will mean that traffic to and from the resolver […]