The last thing anyone wants to hear about their website is: ‘Has your site been hacked? It looks/behaves weird…’Unfortunately, there are plenty of hackers out there, and even more easy targets for hackers. All it takes is someone using an easy-to-guess password, an outdated/insecure web platform, a default password that never got changed, known bugs, …
This list of basic website requirements isn’t aimed at site developers, but at site owners.When your developers/designers say your site is ready, you can use this shortlist to make sure that what they’ve delivered is up to par.(And I wanna bet that it isn’t and that they’ll have to go another round to get it …
Now that I’ve picked up my spankin’ new OnePlus 5 phone, I started to look a bit in what I can plug into it’s USB-C port, besides the included Dash Charge adapter. Here are some useful USB-C accessories for the OnePlus 5 (and other devices which use USB-C):
Yesterday, a large-scale cyber-attack was launched, using WanaCrypt0r 2.0 (aka WannaCry). WanaCrypt0r 2.0 is an exploit tool created by the US government (the NSA to be more precise). The tool uses a vulnerability which was present in most Microsoft Windows versions, but which was patched on March 14th, 2017 (currently supported Windows versions) and retrospectively …
How to speed up virtual machines has been a popular topic lately. A group of virtual machines, each machine having its own demands & quirks, can be very ‘hungry’ when it comes to resources. The VM host needs to provide environments (virtual hardware) for multiple operating systems to run simultaneously. If you abide by the …
Lately, some of my websites have had some serious leeching issues with clients pretending to be Googlebot. They send the correct user agent string, ‘Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)’, but they come from IP’s which have not been assigned to Google. This got me thinking… There must be a way to configure NGINX so that it makes sure …