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Security Alert for all WordPress Blog Users

by Angela Render April 17, 2013

WordPress Security TipsUS-CERT released a warning that WordPress sites are being targeted by a concerted brute-force attack. There are three simple steps you can take to thwart the enemy.

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Cyber Security Tip of the Month – Countering WordPress Brute Force Attacks

by Angela Render October 24, 2012

This month, we’re starting a series on current threats and things you can do to thwart them. This month’s focus is in response to a recent compromise of a WordPress site brought to us for clean-up. The client only discovered something was wrong when Google flagged the site as infected with malware.

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Has Google Killed Creativity?

by Angela Render January 13, 2012

Working with my spouse often makes for some interesting conversations. Over breakfast, he spoke about all the different programs and things he was playing with. Programs like Linux, Red Hat, and Fedora. At the end of the conversation, he commented that in 2012, those programs would never have been called by those names. Their developers, in an effort to increase their ranking in Google, would have called them things like Operating System v3.4, and Free Operating System v3.4.

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Javascript, No-Script, and Effective Web Programming

by Angela Render November 29, 2011

You know, I have been designing and programming for the web since 1993. I admit that in all that time I have never come over to liking javascript. I’ve come around on flash for certain things, but never javascript and it’s not just because coding it gives me a headache. It just never seemed to be worth the trade-off in security, accessibility, or in SEO, yet over the years, more and more sites have come to rely completely on it to deliver even basic functionality.

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Thunderpaw “Best Use of an App Award”

by Angela Render September 7, 2011

And the award goes to: Dragon*Con and Core-Apps’s “Follow Me.” If ever there was an event that needed an app, Dragon*Con was it: 5 hotels, 4 days of programming on 37 different tracks (subjects), 87 exhibitors, 97 dealers, 189 guests (including big-name actors, artists, writers, and musicians), and 40,000 attendees—most tech-savvy. Plus hundreds of unofficial meet-ups, photo-shoots, and parties.

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