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Post by benziger on Jan 7, 2020 22:28:49 GMT
It is sad if a website is hacked. Often, the hackers are interested in customer data or like to use the hacked site for spam or dos-attacs (so your site becomes an agressor). Often the hackers do not hack explicitly yoour site, but e.g. jomla or wordpress sites after they discovered a security issue. So, using a well known tool (CMS) is more risky. How to protect your website: 1. Update: update allways to the newest version of the content management system, but also of all other tools, plug ins, ad ons, etc. (guest book, etc.) 2. at Word Press: use security plug ins. Update them. 3. Use https instead of http. 4. Use a secure web hoster (providing SSL, SSH, updates, backups). 5. If you have web forms with SQL, use allways parameterizsed queries. 6. No user should have the authorisaation or the possibility to put JavaScript or other scripts into your website. 7. Do not use the usual names ad admin or administrator or you (company) name. 8. Use complexe and complicated passwords with at least 12 caracters.* 9. Backup regularly data, system and data base. 10. Protect guest books, forms, etc. with captcha. 11. Check your website regluarly.* * Check the security! - You may check the in your browser, using the following link: passwortcheck.ch (also in English, the check will be done in yoour browser on your computer, not on the server of the service provider [data protection officer of the governement of the Zurich) - attack your website with this servicces: -- www.netsparker.com/web-vulnerability-scanner/ (paid) -- www.openvas.org/ (complexe) -- securityheaders.io/ (easy, free) -- www.virustotal.com/ (free) And if your site is hacked: 1. Deactivate your website 2. Back up your databases (proofs!) 3. Update software and all passwords 4. Find and close the security hole
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Post by mockingbird on Jan 8, 2020 2:47:35 GMT
Thank you!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2020 4:11:05 GMT
What good advice Benziger. Thanks.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2020 4:20:25 GMT
passwordsgenerator.net/ Here is a great website for generating passwords. They are very strong and it's free. I have all of mine copied down and copy and paste to whatever site I'm logging in to.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2020 8:02:07 GMT
Thanks JesusNinja, I've made a note of it. PS. I hope Scoop is OK. I noticed he hasn't joined us.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2020 10:48:33 GMT
Thank you, Benziger and JesusNinja for the resources. Very useful for everyone. I client called me out of the blue a few weeks ago and told me she was hacked on the second day of her website's existence.
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Post by jesusninja on Jan 8, 2020 17:56:26 GMT
Thanks JesusNinja, I've made a note of it. PS. I hope Scoop is OK. I noticed he hasn't joined us. I sent Skoob an email and gave him the link to the site. He said he check it out later.
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Post by jesusninja on Jan 8, 2020 17:58:28 GMT
Thanks JesusNinja, I've made a note of it. PS. I hope Scoop is OK. I noticed he hasn't joined us. I sent Skoob an email and gave him the link to the site. He said he check it out later. Also there is a site called Shield's Up. You can use that to see if your firewall and browser are secure. Free onsite program and only takes a minute.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2020 21:17:06 GMT
Thanks, JesusNinja. You're not signed in. I like seeing your logo. Reminds me of you.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2020 17:07:04 GMT
benziger I checked out your books but saw there were none in English. However I know you can speak English, but also Lingala, French and German. That is very impressive! I studied French and German in school and got my exams in those sunjects, but I'm not fluent in them as you are in your 4 languages. Do you speak any other languages?
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Post by benziger on Jan 14, 2020 14:16:11 GMT
but I'm not fluent in them as you are in your 4 languages. Do yo speak any other languages? Hello Larika, I am not fluent in all this languages. First of all, in the "german" part of Switzerland, there is the following situation: People speak Alemanic, a high-german medieval dialect. They learn standard german only at school (from grade 1). Later, they learn French as a second national language (from grade 3 in the west, closer the France; from grade 5 in the east) and English (from grade 5 in the west and from grade 3 in the east), both languages up to grade 9. In old times, we learned French from grade 7-9 and English or Italian in grade 9. Well, that is why I am fluent in German and nearly fluent in French. Don't ask me too much in Italian, more than twenty years of non use...
Later I had to know English for my job. As English is a kind of grand-son of German and French, I could read it, but when I went to the UK to learn it, nobody understood me and I didn't understand anyone. I started in the beginner class and could jump to the next level every few weeks at the beginning. After three month, I could communicate well, but that's gotten a little weaker in the meantime. When I publish books in Lingala, that wouldn't say that I write them on my own. I am the publisher and if I am the author (e.g. Stork/Malebo), there is always an translator.
The point is: After I learnt French well, I realised, how my knowledge downgraded fast. People told me to read books in French to stop it, books I never finished to read. So I subscribed for a French newspaper, because I'm too cheap to throw away a newspaper without at least flipping through it. And I went to a french speaking church. And as you can easily imagine: Spending a part of your social life in another language helps a lot, even if it's only a very small part. I suppose you spoke pretty good French too, as long as you were in France.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2020 16:04:33 GMT
I suppose you spoke pretty good French too, as long as you were in France Acrually Benziger. I didn't start learning French and German until senior school. In those days we started languages at 11 years old. Also we were taught both subjects very badly. The focus was on reading and writing, not talking. My husband and I stayed in France for 7 years but I had to take classes on speaking French. By the end I could communicate at a simple level but I certainly wasn't fluent. My favourite phrase was, "Je ne peux parler le Francais tres bien." My daughter teaches English to Spanish children and there they start at 3 years old! PS I've given you a gold colour for your messages Benziger, because it represents love, compassion, courage, passion, intelligence and wisdom. However I'm not sure if it's readable. Anyway you will always know gold is your colour.
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