DigitalOcean Accidentally Leaks Customer Data

DigitalOcean Accidentally Leaks Customer Data

DigitalOcean, a popular web-hosting platform, has started informing customers about a data leak that “unintentionally” exposed personally identifiable information online. According to a notification sent to DigitalOcean users, the incident is linked ...
GoDaddy Data Breach Affects 28,000 User Accounts

GoDaddy Data Breach Affects 28,000 User Accounts

GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain registrar, has confirmed that 28,000 of its customers’ web hosting accounts were compromised following a security incident in October 2019. Unfortunately, the web-hosting company only discovered the ...

Web Hosting Security Best Practices

If you’ve been online recently, you may have read the news about hackers demanding a ransom from Dublin’s tram system. Visitors to the Luas website were greeted by the hackers’ message threatening ...

10 Steps to Recover from a Hacked Website

A website getting hacked isn’t really news today; it has become an almost common thing. So, what should you do if your website is hacked? How can you work on recovering things ...
5 Strategies to Lock Hackers Out of Your Website

5 Strategies to Lock Hackers Out of Your Website

If you’re the owner of a small to medium-sized enterprise, then you probably have a website. Most businesses couldn’t function, let alone succeed, without an online presence. Maybe you even act as ...
Vengeful hacker exposes DomainFactory customer banking data and passwords

Vengeful hacker exposes DomainFactory customer banking data and passwords

A German web-hosting firm has suffered a severe data breach because one of its employees reportedly owed money to the attacker. The company only learned of the breach when the hacker announced ...