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Category: Web Security
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Free Maintenance March!
This week marks the beginning of something new for Imagine Monkey. Starting this month, we’re going to be offering monthly specials and promotions to complement our services. For this first month, we’ve decided to offer… One month of free website maintenance, security and optimization. We chose this as our first promotion because we believe…
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Do I Need A Maintenance Plan With My Custom Website?
At Imagine Monkey, we offer website maintenance plans at the conclusion of every project. We know that businesses cherish their online presence and our plans are designed to ensure the persistence of that presence. As we mentioned previously in our series on web security, new software vulnerabilities are discovered every day and, unfortunately, opportunistic hackers…
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GHOST Vulnerability Affecting Open-Source Web Servers
Researchers at Qualys (a California-based security research firm) recently disclosed a critical buffer overflow issue aptly named: GHOST. This is a remote command execution vulnerability in the GNU C library (glibc) – a popular component of most Linux based web servers. The good news is that most major Linux distributors (Red Hat, Debian and Ubuntu)…
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Three Plugin Vulnerabilities for WordPress that you should fix, now.
The Wordfence Team has announced three fresh security vulnerabilities for popular and widely used WordPress plugins – Happy New Year! Updates for the following plugins have been released, and all website administrators should upgrade to the latest release builds ASAP. We have updated the affected plugins for any Imagine Monkey clients who were utilizing them,…
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Web Security And You, Part 2: The Lasting Effects Of A Security Breach
Welcome to the second installment of Web Security And You, this week, I’d like to talk about how a lack of web security can impact your small business website. Last week, when we covered the “how” and “why” of cyber-attacks, we briefly touched on a few of the negative effects of lacking security: site downtime…
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Web Security And You, Part 1: It Can Happen To Anyone
The recent attack on Sony’s computer systems serves as a stark reminder to businesses of all size that ensuring their web security is not optional. Nefarious hackers — or, really, even Google-savvy teenagers — have the ability to cripple websites of any size with a few simple keystrokes. Just this month, over 11,000 websites were…
