When Monitoring Your Employees Goes Horribly Wrong

Technology has given employers the power to track practically every move of their employees. But just because you have the ability to see where the cute receptionist goes after work, or where the rough-around-the-edges account manager goes during his lunch break,...

Sick of Passwords? Here’s What’s Next

As more and more of our existence has moved online, we’ve become ever more dependent on that bane of the connected life: passwords. They’ve become so pervasive and complicated (one capital letter, one number, one punctuation mark, one emoji, one lock of...

How To Keep Your Data–And Your Customers’–Safe From Hackers

It took some time for Kevin Stecko to learn in 2013 that the e-commerce system for his website, 80stees.com, had been hacked. Whoever did it “sat on the [data] for about six months,” Stecko says. “We didn’t notice anything.’’ He doesn’t know how the breach happened,...

5 Security Holes That Every CIO Should Know About

Businesses today are aware of the huge responsibility that comes with protecting customer data. When that data becomes compromised, it puts a business’s entire reputation at risk. Since launching my startup Due I’ve had to learn what it’s like to...

8 Things You Must Know about WP Engine’s Security

As you might have noticed, WP Mayor is hosted on what we consider to be the best WordPress hosting solution, WP Engine. We’ve made the switch to WP Engine earlier on in 2012, and we have noticed a distinct improvement in our site. It’s been faster, our rankings have...

Top 10 Essential WordPress Security Plugins

WordPress is currently the most popular and widely used blogging platform. It is being used by millions of people around the globe. Because of this reason, hackers and spammers are also taking keen interest in breaking the security of the blogs. Though WordPress is...