In the past week, a hacking campaign has been launched on sites running Drupal to inject malicious code that will then mine crypto-currency on your computer. The campaign is believed to have successfully hacked 400 government, corporate, and university websites turning them into cryptocurrency mining platforms that surreptitiously drain visitors’ computers of electricity and computing…
With the GDPR looming many businesses will be looking to ensure their website is compliant. We have been working closely with multiple businesses to ensure this happens, and we are more than happy to help any new clients. Any website that captures identifiable user data needs to comply with the GDPR, which means if you…
With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) looming you will no doubt be bombarded with emails from companies asking you to accept their new policies. This applies to all websites or any business that handles data, so basically every business. We have already covered some key areas of the GDPR but one area we think…
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new EU regulation aimed at helping to strengthen data protection for EU citizens and residents both within the EU and the wider world. The regulation becomes effective from the 25th of May 2018 Anyone who collects and processes personal data will be required to comply with the…
After a year-long trial in the US, Instagram is spreading its ‘shoppable’ tags to eight other countries in advance of a potential global rollout. This new feature allows users to shop directly by using virtual price tags that are overlaid onto posts. Shoppers can tap on these tags to view pop-ups containing the name of…
With online marketing being one of our core services we appreciate how important it is to get your website in front of potential customers. This has become increasingly difficult with organic listings over the years, even with good SEO, and this is why many people turn to paid advertising. AdWords is the most popular paid…
We love WordPress, and nearly all our sites are now developed in it, everyone else loves it too as it also powers 43% of the sites on the Internet. Unfortunately, that means it is a prime target for hackers. There is no point searching for an exploit in software that no one uses. With WordPress,…
We have already posted about Google Chrome starting to warn users when they are submitting data over a form that is not secured by HTTPS. Now Google is taking another step in ridding this internet of HTTP connections. Coming in July 2018, whenever a user navigates to an HTTP site in Chrome the Omnibox will…
For a lot of our clients we use the free SSL supplied by Cloudflare, but in some cases that is not possible and we need to buy a certificate. One of the issues we have encountered when using Virtualmin is that it doesn’t appear to install the SSL correctly and the chain.crt file is missing….
Starting in July 2018, Google will finally use mobile page speed as a ranking in their mobile search results. Back in 2010, Google said page speed was a ranking factor but it “was focused on desktop searches” only. Today though, Google announced that a new ranking algorithm for mobile search call the “Speed Update” will…