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So how do we create strong passwords that are harder to crack? Common sense certainly plays a leading role, but here are some quick guidelines:
If you own or use a Western Digital MyCloud network storage device, listen up! Several security vulnerabilities were found last year by researchers, and Western Digital has recently fixed the problem…but you’ll need to update the firmware on the device. The problems include a backdoor account and other vulnerabilities that together can allow attackers to gain full access to the device. And once they’re on your NAS, they have full access to every other machine on your network.
Check if your MyCloud is vulnerable and update the firmware as soon as possible.
Vulnerable:
Not Vulnerable:
More information is available at BleepingComputer.
I hate Ember.
I love Ember.
Daily I oscillate between those two extremes. But the deeper I get into Ember, the more I can appreciate its design and functionality. It does a lot right out of the box, and whatever it doesn’t do can be added in very easily once your understand Ember’s conventions. Unfortunately, learning those conventions comes with a very steep learning curve. The Ember project has been evolving at a rapid pace and much of the documentation to be found online is outdated or misinformed. So on this page I’m going to list the best documentation I’ve found, and I’ll attempt to keep things up-to-date.
Right now I’m using Ember 2.4 and 2.8, so I’ll avoid linking or commenting on anything in the 1.x version unless it still applies to 2.x. My focus is best practices and patterns for Ember 2.4 and newer.
There are some very strong SEO benefits to standardizing the links to your website by removing the “www” from your URLs:
Removing the WWW from your page URLs can be done in your .htaccess file so you won’t have to go to every page of your website and remove the “www” from your links. But going forward, it’s best to never use the WWW in your links or marketing material, since the .htaccess file will create a redirect, and limiting the number of redirects is always a good thing.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]
And if you’d prefer to use “www” in all of your URLs, you can use this code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]
Don’t forget to replace the “domain.com” text with your domain name! :-)
I recently started having trouble charging my iPhone. Hours after plugging it in to charge, I’d return to find the phone’s battery at the same level I left it. Turns out the iPhone 5 and 6 are prone to having dust, lint and debris build up in the lightening port–the hole at the bottom of the iPhone where the cable plugs in.
Fixing the problem is pretty simple. Get a can of compressed air and blow out the debris. I was shocked to see how much lint and dust blew out of my lightening port! Do not try to blow out the debris using your mouth because the moist air will make the dust and lint stick to the inside of the phone. (Same goes with blowing out dust from your computer or any other electronics.)
Keeping my phone in my pocket was probably the source of the problem. My phone will still stay in my pocket, but I now I know to use a little compressed air to clean out the lightening port every few weeks.
Many website owners have recently checked their Google Analytics account and found referrals from darodar.com, ilovevitaly.ru, and other unfamiliar domains. If you try visiting these domains you’ll be redirected to a shopping site–often Amazon or Ali Express (Asia’s equivalent of Amazon). This is referral spam, being distributed by deceptive affiliate marketers (I like to refer to them as “bad guys”). This new wave of spam is a little different because the affiliate marketer is not visiting your website to get themselves listed as a referrer. Instead, they are passing along fake information directly to Google Analytics, which can make it difficult for website owners to block.
Let’s walk through what’s happening.
<html><head><meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=UTF-8'><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://shopping.ilovevitaly.ru"></head></html>
<html><head><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/zV3VvBIEu"></head></html>
How can you stop this referral spam? Google Analytics gives us a predefined filter that makes it pretty easy. You should create a new View for this filter so your data isn’t ruined if you do something wrong. Here’s a screenshot of what the filter will look like:
In the Hostname field, enter the domain name of your website. Click Verify this filter to see how the filter will affect your data.