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8 Ways To Prevent a DDoS Attack on Your WordPress Website

12/20/2019 by Natividad Sidlangan 2 Comments

A distributed denial of service or DDoS attack is one of the worst things someone can do to your website. To put it bluntly, DDoS attacks are all about shutting off your website, potentially damaging your incoming traffic of visitors and making your site inaccessible. It’s not as bad as a malware attack or a […]

Staying Safe Online: Keeping Your Privacy While Blogging

12/29/2017 by BloggingPro Leave a Comment

No matter how much you’re sharing with your blog’s readers, it’s still essential to keep some personal information for yourself. No matter the topic of your blog, the size of your readership, or your intentions, it’s possible for someone to get more information than you’re comfortable with and use it to find out who you […]

5 Essential Security Tips to Keep Your Blog Safe at All Times

5/2/2017 by Christopher Jan Benitez 1 Comment

Cybercrime is getting worse as years go by. According to this post at Business Insurance USA, there are 556 million victims of cybercrime with over $455 billion losses every year. As a blogger, you may not be as worried compared to bigger businesses since your small online space is hardly worth the attention of hackers. […]

Why You Should Worry About Your Blog Getting Hacked

2/14/2017 by BloggingPro Leave a Comment

It’s old news now but, last year, The Guardian, Netflix, CNN, and Reddit were taken offline in the largest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack in history, a simple but effective bit of cybercrime that overloads a service with data until it collapses. With hacking now an almost mundane occurrence, there’s an obvious question to […]

How To Hack-Proof Your Blog In 3 Easy Steps

2/10/2016 by BloggingPro Leave a Comment

Editor’s note: This post was written by Jen Martinson, a blogger and online security expert working as senior editor for Secure Thoughts, an internet security website whose main focus is keeping everyday people safe from online threats. In addition to being an online security nut, Jen is also a math nerd who does algebra for fun. […]

WordPress Websites Targeted by Russian Cybercrime Network

10/9/2014 by Noemi Tasarra-Twigg Leave a Comment

WordPress websites are battling with a new threat involving a Russian cybercrime network, which is stealing login credentials for U.S. and European banks. Using a botnet, the cybercriminals have already obtained information from 800,000 online-banking transactions. More than 50 percent of these are reported to be from five of the largest banks in the U.S. […]

Blogging Safely When You Travel All Over the World

12/10/2013 by BloggingPro 4 Comments

Source My name’s Matthew and I am a professional blogger, online marketer and all around internet hound. My repeated forays into the great unknown of the online world has lead me to be a bit more cautious than your average internet user who just wants to Google the weather, check their email and see […]

Are You a Blog Scraper?

7/22/2013 by BloggingPro Leave a Comment

Blog scraping can be defined by the act of copying content from one blog and passing it off as your own. What truly defines scraping is copying the content exactly. As long as you are using your own words to detail facts, the act frees you from copyright infringement. This is aside from the fact […]

How to Make Your Blog or Forum Non-sensitive to Spam Attacks

6/6/2013 by BloggingPro 1 Comment

There is a great variety of products to protect your web project against an inescapable evil of the modern Internet – spam attacks, which refer to the spreading of illicit hyperlinks via comments and forum posts on legitimate sites. Despite dozens of available anti-spam solutions, even a multilayer combination of a few of them cannot […]

Is Your Blog DDoS Proof?

4/7/2011 by Darnell Clayton Leave a Comment

For those of you who don’t speak geek, DDoS stands for Distributed Denial of Service which involves a person (or organization) flooding a server with so many requests that the site either goes down or loads extremely slow. Although no site, blog or server is DDoS proof (especially with hostile governments launching DDoS attacks nowadays), there are […]