Protecting Your WordPress Site From Hackers

WordPress is a very common and popular content management system used to develop everything from blogs to ecommerce sites. Unfortunately, it’s also a very common target for attacks and other abuse. Securing your WordPress site from attackers takes a bit of work...

The Core of The Internet : BGP and Trust

One of the core routing mechanisms of the internet, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) has been brought to the forefront of news again, after it’s been uncovered an Italian based company assisted in hijacking a range of 256 addresses to assist police in an...

OpenSSL Vulnerability Advisory : CVE-2015-1783

A vulnerability has been discovered and patched for OpenSSL versions 1.0.1n, and 1.0.2b, and later versions. This vulnerability could allow a malicious attacker into tricking the software into trusting a certificate that shouldn’t be trusted by a CA. It’s...

Tranquil Opens New Data Center in DC

Tranquil Hosting has expanded its footprint into a new data center in the Washington, DC area. We are now online in the Equinix DC3 facility in Ashburn VA. With this expansion, we now serve customers out of a total of four data centers, three in the U.S. (Cary, NC,...

Keeping Your WordPress Install Secure

Today we will ll take a look at some common yet overlooked steps to keep your WordPress installation secure. Keep in mind these steps will not cover every installation fully, but will harden and keep your WordPress installation secure against common vulnerabilities....