The recent SolarWinds attack was incredibly sophisticated. What happens when that level of sophistication targets a homebuyer during one of the largest transactions of their lifetime? On this episode, we tell the story of an extremely difficult-to-detect spearphishing attack that… Continue Reading →
Jan hosts the WP Agency Summit and consults businesses on hosting their own virtual events. His agency empowers community-driven businesses that serve digital agencies to host virtual events so they can grow their loyal audience and establish thought leadership. When… Continue Reading →
This week I share tips for those looking for work and hiring managers. [powerpress]
In this episode, we share a discussion between Scott and Jed on behalf of WHCC’s podcast, This Conversation. You will walk away from the 25-minute conversation will some really good, actionable advice for your photography website. Subscribe to This Conversation’s… Continue Reading →
This week I share a WordPress Alternative: Drupal [powerpress]
This week I share 10 goals to consider for your 2021 plan [powerpress]
Earlier this week, we learned that SolarWinds, the largest provider of network management tools for government and enterprise organizations fell victim to a supply chain attack. This attack affected their Orion network management system. Reportedly, 18,000 enterprise and government customers… Continue Reading →
Jamie Rose is the COO of Momenta Group, which operates Momenta Workshops and Momenta Creative. Jamie spent her early career in the halls of power as a Press Corps photojournalist covering Capitol Hill and the White House, primarily as a… Continue Reading →
This week I follow up with some topics from the past year aka “The Hodgepodge Episode” [powerpress]
WordPress 5.6 was released this week with a new feature called application passwords. In this episode we talk about how application passwords work, where to find them in your WordPress installation, and why Wordfence decided to turn these off by… Continue Reading →
This week I share some ideas for holiday gift giving in 2020 [powerpress]
With WordPress 5.6’s imminent release and the recent release of PHP 8, we talk about the rapid changes affecting the future of WordPress with new security features and new functionality available to both WordPress users and developers. We also review… Continue Reading →
Today we are sharing some incredible news during Cyber Week here at Imagely. It is with great pleasure that we get to share with you our latest theme release. Today we launched Imagely 2.0, built on our next generation theme… Continue Reading →
Monday August 2nd, I put in my notice to quit my corporate job August 9th bought our first house in Dayton August 16th I went full time, work from home, self-employed with HartzlerDM.com Launched Your Website Engineer in Nov of… Continue Reading →
This week I talk about creating an news aggregator website [powerpress]
This week I share what I am thankful for. [powerpress]
Two hosting providers experienced outages this week. GoDaddy had a brief outage affecting numerous systems on Tuesday, November 17. Managed.com had an extensive outage due to ransomware that affected all systems. We discuss what types of incident response preparations site… Continue Reading →
Marika Moffitt is a story-driven pet photographer serving pets and their people in the Greater Seattle Area and beyond. As the owner of Dirtie Dog Photography, Marika focuses on helping her clients stay connected to the animals they love by… Continue Reading →
Three critical privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Ultimate Member plugin put over 100,000 sites at risk. We also talk about the Page Experience metric to be added as a ranking signal for Google search in May 2021 and what this… Continue Reading →
This week I talk about ageism in technology [powerpress]
A hosting provider exposed over 63 million customer records via an open elastic search database containing verbose logs with plain-text username/password credentials for numerous WordPress, Magento and other sites. We also talk about the security updates in WordPress 5.5.2/5.5.3 and… Continue Reading →
Skip Cohen has been in the photographic industry his entire adult life, and in many ways, he is the heart and soul of the industry. Skip is the President and founder of Skip Cohen University, CMO for Platypod, and past… Continue Reading →
We cover a couple of breaking stories this week, including the emergency release of WordPress 5.5.3 on Friday, October 30. In preparation for this, a number of sites autoupdated to version 5.5.3-alpha. We also look at the the defacement of… Continue Reading →
An easily exploitable SQL injection vulnerability was discovered in the Loginizer plugin installed on over one million WordPress sites, causing the WordPress team to force an update to sites using the vulnerable version. The Justice Department is filing antitrust suit… Continue Reading →
Rachel Brenke is an author, photographer, lawyer, and business consultant for photographers and bloggers. She is currently helping creative industry and blogging professionals all over the world initiate, strategize, and implement strategic business and marketing plans through various mediums of… Continue Reading →
In today’s episode I provide an update on what’s happening around here 🙂 Terrible internet 75Hard Challenge Relaunching PharmToTable.Life WooCommerce 101 Webinars on Thursdays Now the editor of the Distributed Podcast School’s back in session Designing my new home office… Continue Reading →
On this week’s episode of Think Like a Hacker, we chat about the cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability found in the Child Theme Creator by Orbisius and how attackers could use a vulnerability like this with spearphishing to wreak havoc,… Continue Reading →
A vulnerability discovered by the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team in the WPBakery plugin exposes over 4 million sites. High severity vulnerabilities were discovered in the Post Grid and Team Showcase plugins. The online avatar service Gravatar, has been exposed to… Continue Reading →
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