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How do I check whether my site has been hacked?

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 All it takes is someone using an easy-to-guess password, an outdated/insecure web platform, a default password that never got changed, known bugs, […]

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Screenshot of Wana Decrypt0r 2.0.

Biggest cyber-attack ever!

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

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How to block fake Googlebot clients in NGINX

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

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