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Common Attacks on WordPress Sites 101: Backdoors
Removing malware from your website, and getting rid of hacks is a painstaking process. When you’re a website owner whose site has been hacked, your online reputation takes a hit. It’s only more distressing when you keep getting hacked. The reason behind this, most of the time, is a ‘backdoor’. Having a backdoor could be…
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Why WordPress Sites Get Hacked
Having your website hacked could be compared to having an annoying roommate sometimes. Everything’s a mess, no matter how many times you keep putting things back. Your shampoo, food and other resources are always running out. Thanks to them, shows you’ve never even heard of turn up in your ‘Continue Watching’ list on Netflix… And…
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Common Attacks to Protect your WordPress Site Against
Having your very own website used to be something reserved for developers once upon a time. All that changed with WordPress, and for the better.But it’s never over. Whether you run a small blog with a loyal following or a big e-commerce window, your website is an integral part of your life. It represents your…
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How our entire company pulled off the perfect work week from McLeod Ganj
The Summer of 2016 saw temperatures in Bengaluru reach record highs and at BlogVault, we were feeling the heat. We needed something to break the monotony of work while finding a way to deal with the sweltering heat… and in all of this, deadlines had to be met. This is when we came up with…
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Tech Crunch Hacked by OurMine: Are Our Websites Safe at All?
As a lot of us following technology news might know by now, TechCrunch was hacked today, by OurMine. The message left by hackers was caught just before the post was taken down: According to OurMine’s website, the organisation is made of “professional hackers and vulnerability assessors” who “only care about the security and privacy of…
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Of Censorship, and the ‘Walled Gardens’ of Content
Fans of Dennis Cooper, the experimental artist and writer, have expressed concern over Google’s removal of the artist’s Blogger account and blog of 14 years. What’s worse, his Gmail account, the medium through which most of his correspondence was conducted was also rendered inaccessible.The writer’s blog, was a choice destination for followers of transgressive, avant…
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We’re off to PressNomics
PressNomics is a 3-day conference for the renowned creators of third-party products and services for the WordPress community, organized by Pagely. It’s all set to take place this week, starting from the 2nd of March till the 5th, at the Tempe Mission Palms, Tempe, Arizona. Our founder, Akshat Choudhary, will be representing BlogVault at this…
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Backing up my first WordPress site
As soon as I was done creating my WordPress site from scratch and migrating my first post from blogspot to WordPress, I wanted to backup my website using our premium backup service “blogVault”.Its simple yet effective for an amateur blogger like me. This is what I did! Sign up for an account I first signed up…
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WordPress Multilingual Plugin Vulnerability – Update now!
Do you use Sitepress’s Multilingual CMS plugin? If yes, this post could be very useful to you. A vulnerability was found recently in this plugin that can compromise your entire site. The vulnerability exposes your site to an SQL injection attack that’ll allow hackers to access your database. The issue has been fixed in version…
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Slider Revolution Plugin Vulnerability – Update now
The Sucuri team recently published a critical vulnerability in one of the popular slider plugins – WordPress Slider Revolution Premium Plugin. The bug has been fixed by the developers in version 4.2 of the plugin. The popular slider plugin is hosted on CodeCanyon as a standalone offering and also bundled along with a lot of…
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