How to encrypt your email address from spam bots Don’t make it easy for the spam bots to harvest your email address. Use HTML entity encoding to make it more difficult for the spam bots to harvest your email address. Email Address Encryption How to encrypt your email address from spam bots Use the adjacent…
The Significance of Using the Latest PHP Version for Your Website. Welcome to DoodleIT Web Design, a local provider of secure website hosting and professional web design services in North Wales. We understand the importance of staying up-to-date with the latest technologies, including using the latest PHP version. In this blog post, we will explore…
We don’t normally publish this data but I just wanted to raise awareness that this week several vulnerabilities were identified with the following WordPress plugins. WordPress plugin vulnerabilities are identified weekly and require immediate attention. We also highly recommend that you update WordPress core to the latest release WordPress 5.7 “Esperanza”. Updates are urgently required…
If you have a WordPress website we strongly recommend that you make use of two-factor authentication. This will bolster your security by adding another layer of protection to your WordPress login. In fact, we recommend two-factor authentication for all your logins. Password security is vital in safeguarding your website. No website is completely safe and…
Implementing Two-factor Authentication for WordPress We are always supportive of any effort to further bolster security and make it harder for a hacker to gain access to your website and Two-factor Authentication for WordPress is one of these. Website security is not a single thing, it’s a series of layers. Just as castles of old…
There has never been a better time to review your passwords. This article has been written by DoodleIT to give you a better understanding of exactly what goes into creating strong passwords and some of the methods used by hackers to compromise them. What to consider first when creating strong passwords Please take the time…
Google has announced a deadline of July 2018 as the date for when Chrome will begin explicitly warning users if a site is insecure. By insecure we mean using http instead of https. You can check this by looking for a little green padlock in the address bar of your browser. After July 2018 More…
Why it’s important to use PDFs for Downloads instead of Word or Excel documents and even worse Powerpoint documents. Antivirus Software Security Alerts for Downloads Antivirus software is starting to display warnings when visitors try to download Word, Excel or even Powerpoint documents from websites. This is not what you want your visitors to experience…
Beginning in January 2017, Google Chrome 56 started showing a warning for unencrypted sites that collect passwords or credit card information, labelling them as “not secure”. By unencrypted we mean using http:// instead of https:// And from October 2017, Chrome 62 will show a not secure warning when users enter text in a form on…
The purpose of this post is to make you aware of the recent changes regarding HTTPS encryption and offer some background information. Some time ago Google started considering HTTPS as a factor when deciding the PageRank of a website or blog. Essentially that implied that Google favoured websites using HTTPS and listed them higher…
WhatsApp us