As of August 2023 Panola Tech is re-opening for business. After completing a successful two year contract working for The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab I am hanging out my shingle once again. If you are in need of a LAMP developer please feel free to reach out to me at john@panolatech.com. – John…
Well it has been a while since I put out one of these. Here are the links to interesting stories I found on the web. If you are a user of Facebook and there are a few left after the latest revelations then you will want to read this. In an effort to combat “fake…
Earlier in the week I published a list of my Essential WordPress Plugins. There is a new user experience change that has come to YouTube. Window boxing, the black bars that appear above and below, will no longer appear on videos that have higher aspect ratios. Unfortunately it can’t do anything for your crappy vertical…
When I create a new installation of WordPress there are certain plugins that I always install. These are my essentials that offer usability and security to my build. Activity Log This is a good plugin that allows you to keep a track of changes in WordPress. It will log activity for logins, posts and plugin…
No original content from me this week. Next week I will have a post about the WordPress plugins that I always use in my website builds. Krebs on Security has a post about how Google requires physical security keys, little usb drives, to prevent Phishing on work accounts. Maybe this is something that could have…
Client 101 I started off the week with a little Client 101. How not to give complete control of your domain to your web developer. If you missed it you can read it here. Phone SIM Card Swapping More and more the smart phone has become the center of our lives. That might be why…
When engaging the service of web developer there are certain things you should do to protect yourself. One of those is make sure you remain the owner of your domain. When you purchase your domain that becomes part of your business’s online identity. How should you protect yourself? First you should signup with a domain…
Haven’t done one of these in a while but since it is Friday the 13th I thought I would scare everyone with my prose and thoughts. On Monday if you saw my post one of my client’s website was under a brute force login attack. It started at 5:42 am CST and didn’t finish until…
Once again Wordfence has done it’s job and alerted me to hackers trying to log into a clients site. It’s obviously coming from some kind of bot network that is going through commonly used usernames and passwords. 5:42 am CST | Login: noreply | User IP: 180.183.246.232 | User hostname: mx-ll-180.183.246-232.dynamic.3bb.co.th | User location: Bangkok, Thailand 5:42 am CST…
WordPress.org today released WordPress 4.9.7. This release fixes the security issue that was reported last week. This is good news as the vulnerability would have allowed a user to delete files outside the upload directory. Along with this update some additional bugs were fixed. Click here to learn more. Most copies of WordPress should have…