If you’re finding random links to malicious or spammy sites on your Wordpress website, it can be very frustrating to find the source. In a recent case, a Wordpress website was injected with random text links to gambling and casino sites in the body of any Wordpress page/post text. These linked to iFrames hosted on…
Category: Security
Upgrade Warning for Internet Explorer 10 and Below
I recently had a request to display a warning message to Internet Explorer users who use IE 10 or less. There are many Wordpress plugins and other suggestions, but they all pretty much apply to Internet Explorer 8 and below. I tried jReject, but there seems to be a compatibility issue with IE 8 and…
Reveal Hidden Passwords in all Major Browsers
[amwmedia.com] Often when using a password tool like the built-in version in Firefox, it can be hard to remember all those saved passwords. Andrew Worcester has created a nifty bookmark that will automatically reveal any password typed on a website in the browser (potentially, you would use this to do some serious snooping…). To execute…
What to do When Your Gmail Gets Hacked
Recently I received a few emails from multiple friends in one day emailing me random links to Australian websites. One was using Gmail, the other was using YahooMail. When I asked them about it, they had no idea. Then my phone lit up with a few email delivery failures on my separate, more professional Gmail…