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This morning global headlines are discussing Apple’s move to oppose a court order issued by the US government regarding breaking into it’s own iPhone. This case has far reaching consequences and is part of a wider debate on cryptography and whether consumers and businesses should have access to strong cryptography and the data protection that comes with it. I’m going to … Read More

Last week in the President’s cyber security op-ed in the Wall Street Journal he implored Americans to move beyond simple passwords and to enable two factor authentication or cellphone sign-in. One of the things we monitor at Wordfence is the number of brute force attacks on WordPress websites. Brute force attacks are password guessing attacks, where an attacker tries to sign in … Read More

I’m just trying out Siteground as host. I only signed up yesterday, so I cannot really say whether or nor they will be something that I can recommend. However, so far, so good. One thing that I really like is the fact that they offer secure connections (https / SSL) with one click thanks to Let’s Encrypt, which I wrote … Read More