What is Multifactor Authentication 2FA/MFA ?
2 Factor Authentication (2FA) provides another layer of security for your website. After completing your normal username and password, you will also be required to provide another factor of authentication. The most popular form of 2FA uses a software generated, time based, one-time passcode. This is often referred to as TOTP or a soft token. […]
How Do I Choose Secure WordPress Plugins?
Trawling through the WordPress plugin library, you will see thousands and thousands of plugins. The WordPress plugin database comes with no guarantees that each plugin is secure, efficient or that it is not already compromised or contains malware. So how do you choose which ones you should use? A number of plugin traits to look […]
What is Hacking and how to best avoid being hacked?
Hackers are basically crooks that want to steal information from you, or manipulate your website to their advantage. They crack or hack the credentials of your site to obtain access to the backend where they are not supposed to be. Once there, depending on their motivation – anything is possible. · Insert unwanted links to […]
Can I have ID Protection available for .AU domain names?
ID protection is not available in the .au domains namespace. auDA (.au Domain Administration) does not allow ID protection on the .au domains. Unlike other gTLD domains (.com, .net), there is less information shown on a standard whois search for .au domains. Only the Registrant/Entity data is shown including ABN, ACN, Trademark, etc along with […]
What SSL Certificate is right for me?
No matter what sort of website you maybe hosting, protecting and encrypting the date that is being sent and received over the internet has never been more important. What is a SSL (Secured Sockets Layer) Certificate? When a SLL Certificate is installed to your site, the SSL Certificate encrypts the data that your customers are […]
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 […]
