No doubt you've been inundated in recent weeks with a bunch of "We're updating our privacy policy" emails, from every website you've ever signed up to (and many you may have forgotten about). This is due to the introduction of a new set of data privacy laws which formally took effect in Europe on 25 May 2018 - the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
According to Shareaholic, in 2017 search outpaced social for referral traffic, for the first time since 2014. In other words, there was more traffic to your website via a Google search (34.8% of site visits), than from social media (25.6%). So does your business still need social media?
Websites are hacked for a variety of reasons, and the thought of it happening can be quite daunting. But with these basic preventative measures, some of the risk can be minimised.
Recently we presented Joomla Security Top 10 Tips to the Joomla Australia User Group. Most of these tips apply to Wordpress as well. You don’t need to be a security professional to make your website safer!
If you're in the web world you've no doubt heard of the EU's new data protection and privacy regulation, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). But did you know that Australia also has it's own Australian Data Privacy Regulations? If you collect customer information in either Australia or anywhere in the EU, it pays to be well informed about the new regulations in both places.
Once upon a time, passwords could be relatively simple. You could swap an "e" for a "3", or add a number on the end of a word, and it was all pretty easy.
But nowadays, password attacking scripts specifically target common habits like this. If you're using the same password everywhere, things can turn out badly!