WordPress is so popular software package for online publications, e-commerce, business sites, blogs, and all types of web sites that it has the major problem that comes with success: hackers. Sucuri, a business specialized in web site security, analyzed infected web Read >
Everyone who is responsible for administering and managing a WordPress blog, web site, or publication that is configured to accept comments knows how massive the comment spam problem is. Fortunately, multiple solutions are available to fight it. In fact, there are Read >
It is only a matter of time when one of the web services you are using gets hacked. A common objective for data thieves is to steal databases that include user data, such as names, passwords, phone numbers, birth dates, addresses, Read >
Why does someone publish thought-provoking articles on the internet only to cover the excellent content with popup windows (see the screen capture above)? In the early days of online advertising – 15-20 years ago – it was common to bombard web Read >
For activating the secure connection lock symbol for a web site, a certificate is required. The certificate can be purchased from an ISP or activated from Let’s Encrypt for free.
Many web site administrators start with the free option – perhaps Read >
Writers who can develop computer software have tried creating applications that can write long form texts for years. Automatic and almost automatic tools that can write simple news reports and structure scientific papers already exist and are used for real work. Read >
A major release of WordPress (version 5.0) open source publishing software and a major gathering of WordPress experts (Wordcamp) coincided in early December 2018. It wasn’t a coincidence. People who had contributed to the new software could explain what was new, Read >
If you ask a generic question like “What is the best phone available at the moment”, experts tend to give different answers because they don’t know the requirements the user has for the device. Product tests conducted by offline and online Read >
In addition to phones, tablets, ereaders and computers that we are frequently using, new gadgets that are marketed as home appliances have been discovered to leak private data to corporate marketing databases. Internet software development organization Mozilla examined a range of Read >
A real life experience proved how software that is constantly spying on mobile phone users has its benefits, too. In a catastrophic situation where you can’t retrieve any data from an old Android phone – and you don’t have backup files Read >
