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WordPress powers over 30% of all websites on the Internet. But affiliate sites? It’s gotta be closer to 100%. Part of the reason is that it’s open source, allowing almost anyone, anywhere to make sure its code is firing on all cylinders. However, there are another 54,000 reasons WordPress is the best blogging platform. That’s the number of plugins there are in the directory, all offering an endless number of customizations for free (or extremely cheap compared to hiring your own developer). Not only do these plugins help you get more out of your affiliate site, but they also help […]

This past Valentine’s Day, millions of friendly and romantic email messages were exchanged around the world. Unfortunately, some of them were exploited by cybercrime groups aiming to infect personal computing devices and networks with GandCrab ransomware. Information security researchers at Mimecast Threat Labs noticed a considerable uptick of activity in the world of Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS), a cybercrime business model that has been on the rise for nearly a year. More interesting, perhaps, are emerging details surrounding this threat. eMafioso? The rise of RaaS is one of various turning points in the cybercrime world, which is starting to show parallels with […]