This is appalling. After all the security blunders over the past year, mostly involving security holes and woefully inadequate encryption, Zoom is still hanging its users out to dry unless they upgrade to a paid corporate plan. Zoom won’t encrypt free calls: This is why! TheWindowsClub.com [Read more..]

Make sure you have adequate security in place both on your server and on your WordPress sites. WP Sites Targeted in Large-Scale Attacks by Ram Gall, Wordfence.com May 5, 2020 Wordfence has been tracking a sudden uptick in attacks targeting Cross-Site Scripting(XSS) vulnerabilities that began on [Read more..]

Happening Now: Over 2 Percent of Sites Using a Let’s Encrypt TLS Certificate May Throw Security Warnings Wordfence.com Mar 3, 2020 On Wednesday, March 4, 2020, 3 million Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates issued by Let’s Encrypt will be revoked because of a Certificate Authority [Read more..]

I have used Windows Security (formerly Windows Defender) as my only real-time anti-malware and firewall protection for years on all my PCs. Coupled with some common sense about which websites I visit and which emails I click on, it has yet to fail me. Occasionally, I will double check my system [Read more..]

If you have this plugin installed, even if it’s not active, delete it immediately! Yuzo Related Posts Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild by Dan Moen, Wordfence.com April 10, 2019 The Yuzo Related Posts plugin, which is installed on over 60,000 websites, was removed from the [Read more..]

Grammarly Adds Junk Code to WordPress Posts and Pages By Kris Gunnars, SearchFacts.com April 4, 2019 When you enable the Grammarly extension in your browser, it scans the text that you type for spelling and grammar errors and underlines them. This is what your text looks like if you have spelling [Read more..]

I have been seeing more contact form spam in the past month or so from my own WordPress sites and clients are reporting the same. I assumed this was human spam and that little could be done to prevent it using the usual automated measures against spambots. However, while making changes on one of [Read more..]

Mozilla’s new Firefox update puts user security at risk with TRR feature by AnkitGupta, TheWindowsClub.com August 7, 2018 Mozilla is all set to introduce two new features to its Firefox browser in its upcoming patch. Called as ‘DNS over HTTPs’ (DOH) and Trusted Recursive Resolver (TRR), [Read more..]

True to their word, Google today released version 68 of their Chrome Browser and, as promised, they have changed the way they warn users about potential issues with web sites. In previous versions, Chrome (and Firefox and most other browsers) alerted users to sites that were not using SSL with a [Read more..]

With new stories about hacked websites and stolen passwords emerging almost daily, here are some new browser tools that alert you if you sign in anywhere using a password that has been breached. Here’s How To Find Out If Your Password Has Been Stolen By Hackers By Robin Andrews, [Read more..]