reader comments 12 with 9 posters participating Share this story A hacker compromised the server used to distribute the PHP programming language and added a backdoor to source code that would have made websites vulnerable to complete takeover, members of the open source project said. Two updates pushed to the PHP Git server over the ..
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reader comments 164 with 94 posters participating, including story author Share this story Over the weekend, word emerged that a hacker breached far-right social media website Gab and downloaded 70 gigabytes of data by exploiting a garden-variety security flaw known as an SQL injection. A quick review of Gab’s open source code shows that the ..
30-second summary: Website security directly impacts the SEO performance of the website, as the non-compliance with the security requirements can cause low rankings or Google penalties. Blacklisting, malicious bots interfering with the crawling process, and spam attacks are among the main consequences of low website security. The “site not available” warning, the presence of strange ..
30-second summary: Google page experience metric goes live in 2021. Rewarding pages that offer a better user experience. The signal measures a site’s performance, security, and mobile-friendliness. To prepare for 2021, get a fast web hosting service, optimize your content for mobile users, and install security measures (firewall, SSL, etc.). Avoid pop-ups and whole screen ..
30-second summary: There are SEO tactics you can apply even without significant expertise. These tactics even the playing field a bit for those who can’t hire a huge team or outsource to an agency. Paying attention to things like images and hosting can give your site a boost. There are simple link building tools that ..
reader comments 35 with 23 posters participating, including story author Share this story Hackers are abusing Google Analytics so that they can more covertly siphon stolen credit card data out of infected ecommerce sites, researchers reported on Monday. Payment card skimming used to refer solely to the practice of infecting point-of-sale machines in brick-and-mortar stores. ..
reader comments 57 with 48 posters participating Share this story Attack code was published on Friday that exploits a critical vulnerability in Magento e-commerce platform, all bug guaranteeing it will be used to plant payment card skimmers on sites that have yet to install a recently released patch. PRODSECBUG-2198 is a SQL injection vulnerability that ..
Website security — or lack thereof — can directly impact your SEO performance. Search specialists can grow complacent. Marketers often get locked into a perception of what SEO is and begin to overlook what SEO should be. The industry has long questioned the permanent impact a website hack can have on organic performance. And many ..
People rarely take SEO recommendations seriously, especially when there are no direct repercussions of not following them on the horizon. So, when in 2014 Google confirmed HTTPS as a ranking signal – that is, recommended that all websites should migrate to HTTPS for the sake of their users’ security – few website owners took it as a direct ..