What are keywords
Keywords are words or phrases that define the topic, purpose, and scope of a website or piece of content. They are used to help search engines understand what your site is about and how it should be indexed in their search results. Keywords can also help people find...
What is WCAG 2.0
What is WCAG 2.0 website compliance and why is it important? Website compliance is important to avoid a lawsuit or government action, but it’s also important to provide an equal opportunity for individuals with a disability to enjoy your goods or services. The WCAG...
Why are you not receiving some messages on an iPhone
Apple’s iMessage service provides the capability to send and receive messages between Apple devices. This is helpful for sending messages from an iPad, iPod touch, or a Mac computer that does not support regular SMS text messaging like the iPhone. Occasionally, you...
The Online Safety Bill
The Australian Parliament has just passed the Online Safety Bill. This new legislation will ensure the laws that exist in real life will now exist online. It will help keep our children safer as well as every Australian adult. It will help hold perpetrators to...
What does Lorem Ipsum mean?
A quick and simplified answer is that Lorem Ipsum refers to text that the DTP (Desktop Publishing) industry use as replacement text when the real text is not available. For example, when designing a brochure or book, a designer will insert Lorem ipsum text if the real...
How Facebook Tracks You
How Facebook Tracks YouFacebook can track you, even when you are not using the app.
What are Toxic Back Links?
Toxic backlinks are links from sites that can weaken your website’s SEO (Search Engine Optimisation of the ability for Google to show your site above other sites from your industry). Weaker SEO means fewer organic visitors. Fewer organic visitors can mean fewer leads...
Why students should learn to code
5 Simple Rules for a Catchy Headline (Formula Included)
Great content or design is important, but the winning part of writing an article is the headline. Unless you practice regularly, creating a headline can be tedious and draining. If you don't get it right, no-one will read your blog or eBook. It is important...
Noise reduction – what does it mean?
Intruder is designed to be less noisy than other vulnerability scanners, but what does that mean for you? It can be difficult to know if a vulnerability scanner is any good, especially if you're testing it against your own systems, which at this point in time, may not...
What’s the benefit of perimeter-specific results?
Your perimeter is different to the rest of your infrastructure, we treat it that way Intruder translates the output from enterprise-grade vulnerability scanning tools to provide perimeter-specific results. But why is that a good thing? Largely this is to do with two...
What scanning engine does Intruder use?
To make sure they're getting the security they deserve, our customers often want to know what's under the hood We didn't start Intruder to re-invent the wheel. There were already lots of vulnerability scanners out there, and they all had a lot in common. In fact, when...
Emerging Threat Scans
What they are and why they're an important part of keeping your systems safe Patrick Craston avatar Written by Patrick Craston Updated over a week ago On average, over 8,000 new vulnerabilities are discovered in common software and hardware platforms every year....
A Quick Guide to SMB Security
Introduction The Server Message Block (SMB) protocol is one of the most widely used, and oft misconfigured, network protocols around today. On our internal network penetration tests, we’re very commonly able to leverage these misconfigurations to uncover sensitive...
Preventing Email Spoofing with DMARC
Introduction One of the most common issues we find on penetration testing and process review engagements is misconfigured, or completely missing, Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting & Conformance records, or DMARC for short. These simple DNS records prevent...
What is SEO?
A Search Engine is a website that allows you to search for things on the internet. The most common search engines are Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimisation. The better your website's Search Engine Optimisation is, the more likely...
Google Sept. 2019 Core Update ‘weaker’ than June core update
A detailed look at the early impact from the latest Google core update. The Google September 2019 core update should be just about done rolling out by now, and we wanted to share some early analysis on this latest update. We have data from a number of SEO tool...
What is Mobile Advertising
Mobile advertising is type of advertising that appears on mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets that have wireless connections. As a subset of mobile marketing, mobile advertising can take place as text ads via SMS, or banner advertisements that appear...
How to colour your website
Your web pages should ideally be a pleasing combination of text and images. It really doesn’t take much in the way of gaudy colour combinations or overly flashy animation to turn visitors away. Colour selection is a critical issue while developing your web site. Try...
Easily move an email account from one cPanel server to another
Moving an email account, along with old emails, from one cPanel account to another is easy to do yourself. You simply need a littel knowledge of of cPanel and FTP. I will be using the terms OLD SERVER and NEW SERVER a lot in this article. Below are the definitions:...