Website Technology Changes for Video Playback, Important!

by | Dec 2, 2017 | Blog, Computers, internet stuff, programming, Safari, Web Development

If you have a website, or you are involved in web development, you know that things are constantly changing, right? Do you remember not too long ago before HTML 5 and CSS 3 came out and brought along all the wonderful responsive website technology that made things so nice for cell phones and tablets? Do you remember that once upon a time, we had to have a .mobile TLD (top level domain) for your URL so you could have an entire separate website for cell phones? And then came along HTML5 and CSS3 and all this wonderful new stuff that removed the scroll bar from the bottom of the webpage, and now things just AUTOMATICALLY resize depending on screen size? It seems like ages ago, but really it wasn’t that many years ago. Things change rapidly when it comes to internet technology. Sometimes, for those of us who work in it, it’s difficult to keep up with.

Anyway, today I have some information about the WebKit engine. WebKit engine is the technology used for Safari browsers, and the Kindle browser. (why can’t they just use the same HTML as everyone else, right?) Anyway, there are some new changes that have to do how AUTOPLAY on videos works. So if you have video on your website, you are probably going to want to study this issue. I have read that the changes that Apple made, Chrome will also be making in early 2018. The main thing is that AUDIO will not autoplay any more. If you want sound, you have to have controls enabled. Only videos without sound will autoplay. If you want to read about the OSX and iOS Webkit changes, you can read about them here: https://webkit.org/blog/7734/auto-play-policy-changes-for-macos/

WordPress 4.9 Released

by | Nov 16, 2017 | Blog, Computers, hacking, internet stuff, programming, Security, Web Development, wordpress, Wordpress

WORDPRESS VERSION 4.9 UPDATE RELEASED

Be sure to update your WordPress sites and keep them secure. (and get all the wonderful additional features they add in major version releases). Today version 4.9, nick-named “Tipton” was released. It has a lot of new features, new widgets, a lot of customizer improvements, coding enhancements, and much more, GO READ ABOUT IT if you are interested. It is sitting there on your dashboard, waiting for you to run the update, so take the 5 minutes and go do it. Don’t forget to backup both the files and the database first, so if something on your site for some reason is not compatible, you can restore it to the prior configuration.

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Equifax Breach, did it end there?

by | Oct 17, 2017 | Blog

Most of you have heard about the equifax breach by now. But did you know that Equifax has another website that is an employment income verification site, that has all of most your employment data, employment dates, SALARY INFORMATION, and much more, and shows how it can be accessed, sometimes with a simple email address? This is information that has already been breached, the realistically could allow someone to fake a tax return (the should belong to you)

October is national security month. And you should really read this article, it’s quite alarming, and people need to be aware. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/10/equifax-breach-fallout-your-salary-history/ Krebs on Security is a great source of security, and breach information, and is usually very timely in reporting as well. The only good thing is The Work Number site doesn’t seem to work real well, and either crashes, or fails to retrieve what’s there.

Black Monday for Wifi

by | Oct 16, 2017 | Blog, Computers, hacking, internet stuff, Security, Web Development

Today is BLACK MONDAY: WiFi is No Longer Secure”

Today is being called “Black Monday” in many information security circles. We have had a major Wi-Fi vulnerability announced that affects absolutely every device that supports Wi-Fi. The vulnerability allows attackers to decrypt WPA2 connections. A second vulnerability has also emerged today. This is a bad day for security. 

There is a lot of very technical information, which most of you won’t understand, but if you techies want to read the full article, WordFence wrote it much better than I ever could. You can catch that post here: WORDFENCE WPA2 ENCRYPTION CRACKED!  

Just to show you how quickly a hacker can now get onto a wifi network, and get passwords, and much, much more, I’ll add the Video here so you don’t have to click to watch the video. 

 I will follow up this post, as soon as I learn how to secure wifi again. As it is, everyone is using WPA2, it was supposed to be the unbreakable security method. But I’m sure they will tell us quickly how to block these kind of attacks, and I will pass it on to you as soon as I find out myself. (because information should be shared)