by Dave Mroz | Sep 9, 2020 | Security
There is a meme going around right now that says to type in antifa.com and see what happens. Spoiler: antifa redirects to Joe Biden. That is antifa.com redirects to joebiden.com. The political right says this shows Biden’s support for antifa. The political left is...
by Dave Mroz | Aug 29, 2020 | Security
This post is a sidebar on an deep dive into domain redirects as it relates to Antifa.com redirecting to JoeBiden.com. If you haven’t already done so, please read the post titled Antifa Redirects to Joe Biden for context on why this part of the test was necessary...
by Dave Mroz | Aug 29, 2020 | WordPress, Knowledge Base, Security
Occasionally it happens where we are inheriting a site developed by someone else where we have file system access, but not access to WordPress itself. When this occurs, we can use PHP to create a new WordPress administrator account to let us into WordPress to take...
by Dave Mroz | Jul 22, 2020 | Security, DNS, Microsoft 365
We received an alert from our internal monitoring system that a domain that we oversee for one of our clients had a configuration error causing the www subdomain to not resolve properly. We immediately ran a DNS report to see what was amiss and noticed that, not only...
by Dave Mroz | Apr 21, 2014 | Security, WordPress
I’m running a test. In my post on Blocking Kyivstar From Accessing Your WordPress Site from January, I first said that “‘admin’ isn’t a valid username on this blog and it shouldn’t be on yours, either!”. Since then I’ve used similar...
by Dave Mroz | Apr 14, 2014 | Security, Web Design, WordPress
Congratulations! You just picked a host and successfully got WordPress installed and can’t wait to stat blogging! Stop and pause for a quick minute and make sure that your WordPress installation is configured properly and reasonably secure. Going through this...
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