Introducing the Magical Markdown Series
I just posted a 4-part Markdown tutorial series: part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4
Continue reading →Announcing Launch of My Site’s Been Hacked
This is to officially announce the launch of My Site’s Been Hacked! The site contains a variety of resources including: A forum where folks can receive confidential help w/their compromised sites. Search engines do not index the forums, so your … Continue reading →
Free 1 Year Hosting for a Lucky Nonprofit
Bright Stars Web Technologies, a web hosting provider, is offering to one nonprofit organization (NPO) free hosting & compromise protection for a year, as well as 10% of all proceeds from client sales. This includes sales from hosting sites, repairing … Continue reading →
Server Migration Complete!
This is both an announcement and a sort of test post. I am going through all sites that use WordPress and disabling wp-cron in the WordPress configuration, opting instead to run it through the control panel. This should make sites … Continue reading →
My Cyber Security Interview on TheGlobalVoice
I am honored to be featured as a guest on the “Voices” radio show broadcast by TheGlobalVoice. Hosted by Chrissie Cochrane, the show airs on The 1st Friday of the month at 17:30 UTC and is repeated Saturday at 06:30 … Continue reading →
Verify Domain Ownership Using DNS
Sometimes, in the course of human events, particularly when you’re a website owner, you may be asked to verify ownership of your domain. This is sometimes done by posting a file to your website and having the verification requestor bot … Continue reading →
Announcing Speak Aloud Functionality on Bright Stars Web
In order to assist those w/reading disabilities, or just make listening to content easier, we’ve enabled the ability to listen to posts using computerized text-to-speech. Because the US voice offered by the plugin was so abysmal, the UK voice was … Continue reading →
Simple Quiz for Website Owners #2
Simple Quiz for Website Owners
Do you have a small blog or small business website? Then you should take this quiz. & once you have, please tell your friends who own websites, so they can take it too.
Continue reading →Installing a Website Using Softaculous
Almost all purveyors of shared hosting provide one or more applications by which their clients can install 3rd-party software such as WordPress, Drupal, Joomla!, Magenta, & others. My personal preference, if your hosting provider has it, is a program called … Continue reading →
Creating a Database User and Granting Privileges
There are times when it’s advantageous to create a new user for an existing database. This can be particularly helpful in a site compromise, where the database credentials should be changed in order to ensure that the criminals no longer … Continue reading →
