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How to Deal With the “on this day I hacked your OS” Phishing Scam Email

Updated on November 30, 2022 by InMotion Hosting Contributor

In this article, we cover a phishing email starting with the following sentence: on this day I hacked your OS and got full access to your account [email protected] Such phishing emails aim to create feelings of desperation and fear. We want to combat this by ensuring you better understand how to deal with such issues. Read More >

How To Hide WordPress Version From Hackers

Updated on August 16, 2021 by Christopher Maiorana

Every moment your website is online, it can be preyed upon by hackers. If you have a WordPress site, you can be certain it will be targeted at some point. The question is not if attempts will be made to compromise your site, it’s when. But there’s hope! If you follow a few basic security Read More >

Banning known hack sources from your WordPress site

Updated on June 8, 2023 by Jeff Matson

Preventing malicious attacks before they are even attempted is often one of the best defenses against your website becoming hacked. Of course, there is no replacement for a securely developed site, but a large majority of attacks can be blocked by simply banning malicious sources from your WordPress site. In this article, we will show Read More >

Fix Joomla Hack and Upgrade for Security

Updated on October 5, 2022 by InMotion Hosting Contributor

Joomla is a very popular Content Management System (CMS) that can help make your website publishing life easier. However just like any other software, if you don’t keep it up to date, you could be opening yourself up for some headaches down the road. Nothing is worse than having your website suddenly defaced with messages you Read More >

Malicious user activity and hacks

Updated on August 16, 2021 by InMotion Hosting Contributor

In this article I’m going to explain why stopping malicious user activity and hacks from running on your account, is important to keeping your account’s resource usage low. What is a malicious user? Your website is open to anyone on the Internet, with this availability to the world it also brings along with it certain Read More >

.htaccess Hack Cleanup

Updated on August 16, 2021 by InMotion Hosting Contributor

In this article we’ll discuss steps you can take to clean up an .htaccess hack. The .htaccess file is used to primarily setup rewrite rules to control the way your site is accessed. You might not notice that your .htaccess file has been hacked until either a manual investigation, or you happen to get a Read More >

How to Re-Install WordPress after a Hack

Updated on August 16, 2021 by InMotion Hosting Contributor

In this article we’ll discuss the steps you’d want to take regarding how to re-Install WordPress after a hack, to get your site back up and running quickly. In most cases when a WordPress site is hacked, it is because you are not running the latest secure version of WordPress, or one of the plugins Read More >

I Think My Website Has Been Hacked

Updated on April 17, 2024 by Brad Markle

If you think your website has been hacked, it’s good to determine the nature of the hack as soon as possible. There’s many different types of hacks and some hacks can be malicious. Other hacks are just defacements to your actual webpages. We recommend that you regularly back up your website and store them on Read More >

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