In June this year, Mozilla enabled the Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) setting by default only for its new users who downloaded a fresh copy of firefox. Leaving old users with options to either enable the new feature manually or wait for the company to activate it for all users. Finally, the wait is over. With… Continue reading Firefox 69 By Default Blocks Third-Party Tracking Cookies and Cryptominers
Google Starts Penalizing Domain Leasing
A while back Google officially posted on Twitter about sites that lease out its own subdomains. Google said “We’ve been asked if third-parties can host content in subdomains or subfolders of another’s domain. It’s not against our guidelines. But as the practice has grown, our systems are being improved to better know when such content… Continue reading Google Starts Penalizing Domain Leasing
Massive Security Breach on Website Passwords have Surfaced Online
Google alerts users that billions of passwords and hundreds of thousands of username and password combinations have been hacked. In February of this year, Google launched a new Password Checkup Extension for Chrome. Warning sign appears every time you log into a website using one of over 4 billion usernames and passwords that have already… Continue reading Massive Security Breach on Website Passwords have Surfaced Online
Google Has Started Removing FTP Support From Chrome
Google Chrome developers are taking steps to remove support for fetching document subresources over FTP and rendering of top level FTP resources. Currently navigating to FTP URLs result in showing a directory listing or a download depending on the type of resource. FTP Deprecation Timeline Chrome 78: Start of FTP deprecation. Chrome 80 (Q1 2020):… Continue reading Google Has Started Removing FTP Support From Chrome
WordPress security update
On June 26 there was a report from RIPS Technologies who reported that any WordPress version, including the then current 4.9.6 version allows any logged-in user with an Author role or higher to delete files on the server. In a standard WordPress installation any user with a role of Author or higher has the ability… Continue reading WordPress security update
Experimental HTTPS: Let’s Encrypt
As we wrote earlier in our newsletters, browsers show a “not secure” warning when visiting unencrypted (non https) forms, eg. when you login to your wordpress wp-admin/ panel, and those warnings will be expanded in the future, which may scare your visitors. This is why we have started a trial with a basic SSL service, which we’ll provide… Continue reading Experimental HTTPS: Let’s Encrypt
WordPress Vulnerability Scanner
If you have many websites and develop a lot, it is easy to accidentally forget about that “testing” directory, or to forget to configure updates for a website. But that is how most websites get compromised. To prevent your WordPress website from being compromised by hackers or malware, we have created security software that is… Continue reading WordPress Vulnerability Scanner
How to configure Transmit FTP Client
Click on the video for a short tutorial to set up Transmit (Mac only ftp client). This way, you can upload files to your website account. Below the video you can also find the settings that you need to configure. Need to configure another FTP client? Click here. Settings needed Server: yourdomain.com User Name: your… Continue reading How to configure Transmit FTP Client
Turn Your Unused Domain Name into a Profit Machine
If you’re one of the many people who have one or more unused domain names just sitting around, then you really need to start taking advantage of the potential revenue that these domains could be making! Anybody can utilize their unused domain(s) to create some nice profit-generating opportunities with the help of a free blogging… Continue reading Turn Your Unused Domain Name into a Profit Machine
Add subdomains via customer panel
We are thrilled to announce subdomain functionality in the customer panel!! Call us crazy to be thrilled about it, but hey, we’re geeks! A subdomain is for example “blog” in the URL blog.example.org I personally use subdomains mainly to do the webdevelopment for a new website, for example I would develop the new website on… Continue reading Add subdomains via customer panel