All Entries Tagged With: "Security"
StillSecure Unveils Security Services Suite
(The Hosting News) - StillSecure®, a managed network security solutions and certified compliance company, today announced that its suite of comprehensive managed security services can now be embedded within a public cloud infrastructure. StillSecure’s network security appliance, Cloud Network Security Appliance (NSA), can protect customer cloud servers at most public cloud providers. Until now, organizations leveraging [...]
Security Firm: Injection Hit 200,000 Sites
(The Hosting News) –WordPress represents one of the largest online blogging platforms, used by a variety of companies and entities for the purpose of maintaining their web presences. Not surprisingly, the platform itself has also long been a common target of those who seek to disrupt stability on the web – hackers. On Monday, online [...]
Security Companies Examine Views on Compromised Sites
(The Hosting News) – A recently released report from two companies is providing some unique insight from website owners who have faced the wrath of Internet hackers in the past. In the report titled “Compromised Websites: An Owner’s Perspective,” security solution providers StopBadware and Commontouch teamed up to survey more than six hundred website operators [...]
Password Generators for Hosting Security
Web hosting security is an ongoing struggle. No matter how well-prepared you think you are for security issues, there is always something more you can do. One of the biggest security vulnerabilities that system administrators and individual users alike often face is password inadequacy. A weak password is almost like leaving the door to a [...]
Install Security for Your Online Store with SSL
(The Hosting News) – Everyday consumers hear about the increasing amount of security threats plaguing e-commerce sites. This causes a feeling of apprehension and lack of confidence when shopping online. A disclosure report in 2009 admitted by major credit card companies showed that an estimated forty million credit cards may have been compromised. The threat [...]
Want Security? Abandon FTP for SFTP
Security through obscurity rarely works as well as one would hope. Instead, you run the risk of being hit by an anonymous hacker who found you through a random vulnerability scan. In the old days FTP was the best option for transferring files from your computer to your website. Those days are long over, but [...]
Bit-Defender Internet Security Review
It’s that time of year again, all of the various security suites are coming out with their 2012 versions and redoing interfaces and making it all bigger, stronger and faster. Of course, Bit-Defender is no exception to this rule. As we begin to evaluate our internet security options for this year, we can certainly see [...]
The Case of the Overzealous Security Guard
Just last week, I had an interesting experience with a web host that I use (as always, names of the guilty withheld). It highlighted some of the things that I’ve talked about in this column about customer service, security, and employee empowerment. It wasn’t that big of an issue, but it was a reminder of [...]
