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GUEST ESSAY: Restore Us Institute (RUI) aims to protect Americans from online harms and crimes

The Last Watchdog

The Internet’s co-designer, Vint Cerf, in a 2008 Guardian interview , explained how the Internet’s 1974, essential enabling Internet-protocol had a design flaw in not enabling packet authentication, security, or privacy at scale. Utopia meet reality. “It was actually an oversight. It succeeded at that goal.

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A Short History of WordPress: The Plugin

SiteLock

As best I can gather from my research, these were some of the very first plugins to be monetized and premium brands to be created: WP eCommerce – 2006. Gravity Forms – 2008. iThemes (Billboard plugin) – 2008. CodeCanyon – 2010 (premium plugin marketplace).

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Cybercriminals are Oversharing with Social Media Data Breaches

SiteLock

In 2008, Myspace was the world’s largest social networking site. The stolen data was several years old, but it is still valuable on the dark web because people often reuse passwords for multiple sites and accounts, from online banking to eCommerce accounts. 29 milliseconds to crack them.

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SiteLock Named To The 2016 Online Trust Alliance Honor Roll

SiteLock

Founded in 2008, the company currently protects over eight million users worldwide. Its members and supporters include leaders spanning the public policy, technology, ecommerce, social networking, mobile, email and interactive marketing, financial, service provider, government agency and industry organization sectors. Media Contact.

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Why Do I Need Website Security?

SiteLock

SiteLock was founded in 2008 with one mission: to protect every website on the internet. Even if you don’t run an eCommerce business, you’ll still want to protect your website. Below are answers to some frequently asked questions and concerns we hear at SiteLock that will help you understand the importance of website security.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

For example through the use of both the Finnish and US CERT the details of Heartbleed were given to several companies ahead of public disclosure, making sure that banking and ecommerce websites that used OpenSSL were patched in time.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

For example through the use of both the Finnish and US CERT the details of Heartbleed were given to several companies ahead of public disclosure, making sure that banking and ecommerce websites that used OpenSSL were patched in time.