{"id":4704,"date":"2019-06-13T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mcmdigitalproducts.com\/?p=4704"},"modified":"2019-06-13T15:09:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T20:09:00","slug":"website-security-attacks-from-the-u-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mcmdigitalproducts.com\/?p=4704","title":{"rendered":"Website Security &#8211; Attacks from the U.K."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pretty interested in website security, because I&#8217;ve got a lot riding on my clients website up-time.\u00a0 This morning I&#8217;ve received no less than 6 of these messages:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4705\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mcmdigitalproducts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rsz_website_security.jpg\" alt=\"website security\" width=\"557\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mcmdigitalproducts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rsz_website_security.jpg 557w, https:\/\/blog.mcmdigitalproducts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rsz_website_security-400x249.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blog.mcmdigitalproducts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rsz_website_security-144x90.jpg 144w, https:\/\/blog.mcmdigitalproducts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rsz_website_security-20x12.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oddly, these attacks appear to originate from the U.K.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see in the image, they try to run several recent exploits against your website in hopes that you haven&#8217;t updated it or taken other proactive measures to secure your website.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, Living Water Digital <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mcmdigitalproducts.com\/website-care\/\">care plan<\/a> clients needn&#8217;t worry.\u00a0 If there ever was a successful breach, it could be mitigated at the website level in a matter of minutes.\u00a0 But these notifications are a great reminder that the threat is real.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pretty interested in website security, because I&#8217;ve got a lot riding on my clients website up-time.\u00a0 This morning I&#8217;ve received no less than 6 of these messages: Oddly, these attacks appear to originate from the U.K. As you can see in the image, they try to run several recent exploits against your website in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[293,295],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-client-updates","category-website-security","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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