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An ongoing discussion of web design and web security.
2024-03-12T15:00:10Z
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2024-03-11T23:49:12Z
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If you need to transfer a phpBB website to a new hosting account, either at a new web host or another account at the same web host, the process usually isn’t too hard. But there are things that can go wrong, so below we go through the important things to do as you are working … Continue reading "Transferring phpBB to a New Web Hosting Account"
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https://www.whitefirdesign.com/blog/?p=5070
2024-03-11T17:31:46Z
2024-03-11T18:00:22Z
We were recently contacted by someone who needed support for their WordPress website, where they were locked out of the website and needed to change their WordPress password. We suggested they use the “Lost your password?” link on the login page to reset the password. They said that didn’t work. It turned out that when … Continue reading "Resetting the WordPress Password When WordPress Can’t Send Emails"
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https://www.whitefirdesign.com/blog/?p=5088
2024-03-10T20:43:22Z
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If you need to transfer a MediaWiki website to a new hosting account, either at a new web host or another account at the same web host, the process usually isn’t too hard. But there are things that can go wrong, so below we go through the important things to do as you are working … Continue reading "Transferring MediaWiki to a New Web Hosting Account"
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https://www.whitefirdesign.com/blog/?p=5065
2024-03-08T20:42:22Z
2024-03-08T21:00:22Z
Considering the poor state of security, better understanding where companies need to improve their security could be very useful. A big problem with doing that is how can you measure that. That appears to be a problem with a study released in December from Bitsight and Google. That is well summed up with this chart … Continue reading "Bitsight/Google Study Finds That Security Controls That Are Easier to Measures Are Being Handled Worse"
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https://www.whitefirdesign.com/blog/?p=5080
2024-03-10T20:39:02Z
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If you need to transfer a Joomla website to a new hosting account, either at a new web host or another account at the same web host, the process usually isn’t too hard. But there are things that can go wrong, so below we go through the important things to do as you are working … Continue reading "Transferring Joomla to a New Web Hosting Account"
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https://www.whitefirdesign.com/blog/?p=5062
2024-03-07T20:50:56Z
2024-03-07T21:00:10Z
If you have malware on your WordPress website, you are not having a great time and you don’t want to make the situation worse by causing more problems when removing it. From our years of cleaning up hacked WordPress websites and dealing with the aftermath of others not doing a good job of that, there … Continue reading "How to Safely Remove Malware From a WordPress Website"
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https://www.whitefirdesign.com/blog/?p=5074
2024-03-06T20:28:08Z
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If you need to transfer a PrestaShop website to a new hosting account, either at a new web host or another account at the same web host, the process usually isn’t too hard. But there are things that can go wrong, so below we go through the important things to do as you are working … Continue reading "Transferring PrestaShop to a New Web Hosting Account"
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2024-03-06T22:24:39Z
2024-03-06T23:00:40Z
Since last week, we have been looking at various ways that web spammers have been abusing functionality of websites, particularly on websites at major universities, to place spam content on them. The final element that we noticed at this time involves software designed by and for universities. The software, Manifold, is there to allow handling … Continue reading "Manifold Public Reading Groups Being Abused by Web Spammers"
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https://www.whitefirdesign.com/blog/?p=5050
2024-03-08T16:08:32Z
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While we are often contacted to deal with cleaning up hacked WordPress websites, we also often run across hacked WordPress websites when we are contacted about doing other work. We mentioned a recent instance where a WordPress website that was running slowly was hacked. In another instance, while checking on a website to see what … Continue reading "A WordPress Website That is Hacked and Redirecting to Another Website May Redirect Intermittently"
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https://www.whitefirdesign.com/blog/?p=5060
2024-03-05T20:41:39Z
2024-03-06T16:00:51Z
If you need to transfer a Zen Cart website to a new hosting account, either at a new web host or another account at the same web host, the process usually isn’t too hard. But there are things that can go wrong, so below we go through the important things to do as you are … Continue reading "Transferring Zen Cart to a New Web Hosting Account"
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https://www.whitefirdesign.com/blog/?p=5054
2024-03-05T20:07:03Z
2024-03-05T21:00:01Z
In looking over recent web spam activity, we have noted two trends. Abusing functionality of popular web software and doing that with websites from major universes. So another element of this isn’t surprising. Spammers are adding spam pages to websites running MediaWiki from major universities. Here are the latest pages added to a Harvard hosted … Continue reading "Web Spammers Also Abusing MediaWiki Websites at Major Universities"
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https://www.whitefirdesign.com/blog/?p=5009
2024-03-05T18:54:33Z
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If you need to transfer a SuiteCRM website to a new hosting account, either at a new web host or another account at the same web host, the process usually isn’t too hard. But there are things that can go wrong, so below we go through the important things to do as you are working … Continue reading "Transferring SuiteCRM to a New Web Hosting Account"
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https://www.whitefirdesign.com/blog/?p=5036
2024-03-05T20:00:26Z
2024-03-05T19:00:58Z
Last week, we looked at various methods that spammers are using to place spam pages and other content on websites. That includes abusing web software, such as a Drupal module on websites from high-profile universities, and a feature of the Wix website builder service. It wouldn’t be surprising to hear that WordPress websites were also … Continue reading "Various WordPress File Upload Functionality Being Abused by Web Spammers"
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https://www.whitefirdesign.com/blog/?p=5038
2024-03-01T19:05:53Z
2024-03-01T20:00:11Z
In the last few days, we have been looking at various aspects of a web spam campaign. We have found that, among other things, websites from various major universities have been impacted by this. We also found that GitHub and LinkedIn, which are both owned by Microsoft, have been impacted by this and they don’t … Continue reading "GitHub Apps and LinkedIn Pulse Being Abused by Web Spammers"
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https://www.whitefirdesign.com/blog/?p=5034
2024-03-01T18:01:31Z
2024-03-01T19:00:38Z
The last few days we have been looking at what web spammers have been abusing to place spam files on various websites. Some of that has involved various websites from major universities, including Duke and Harvard. That isn’t all that surprising as they can have a lot of websites and they can stay up despite … Continue reading "Brigham Young University CDN Being Abused by Web Spammers"
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