Triune Designs Blog: Web Design, Development, & Marketing

A few days ago I wrote about our website having been potentially hacked by way of our WordPress blog. After performing a couple of preventative measures I decided to contact our web host, Media Temple to see if there was anything else we could do.

Jeff’s Advice To Me… And You
Jeff, who provided excellent customer service, and I spoke about our situation. To help you with your website, here is the rundown I received.

• Stay on top of your blog and its members. Try to catch possible issues early before users have a chance to do harm to your website.
• If you can do it, turn off the “anyone can register” option under general settings of your WordPress blog.
• Change your password frequently and use something alphanumeric with lowercase letters, capital letters, and typographical symbols.
• Check out Google Webmaster Tools. In general they provide good information for your website. An added benefit, is that if you have any red flags from being hacked they will let you know here.
• Run virus scans on your computer to make sure you do not have any viruses or spyware. This is a “just-in-case” measure for extra protection for you, your computer, and your website.

We Are Not Just About Security
I know a lot of the past few blog posts have been about personal, blog, and online security. Please know this is just a temporary subject given all of the things that have been happening around Triune Designs and the web in general. We should be resuming our “normal programming” quite soon.

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