Ali Luke, editor of Daily Blog Tips, warns about a web mistake that could be very dangerous if you happen to make it.
One of my less than happy memories as a blogger is from a couple of years ago.
It started with an email from a kind reader. Sadly, it was the sort of email that no blogger wants to receive, titled “Chrome is warning people off your site.” The reader alerted me to a malware message appearing when he tried to visit my site Aliventures.
Not great news at any time … but I was right in the middle of running an ecourse on my site, and about to head off for a weekend conference.
After a long struggle to find out what was wrong and how to fix it, I learned that the malware had got in through an outdated plugin on an old website, running an old version of WordPress, that I’d not looked at in years.
And the reason the malware had infected my main site, Aliventures, was because I’d (unknowingly) made a really stupid mistake.
Read the entire article Warning: Don’t Make This Stupid Website Security Mistake on Daily Blog Tips.