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  • Victorious Club’s white label solution releases new features and announces special offers

    Victorious Club’s white label solution releases new features and announces special offers

    Over at Victorious Club, where they develop the Ultimate Fantasy Sports plug-in for Wordrpess, they continue to work hard on bringing your the very best from the Fantasy Sports Software World. They have further enhanced their platform by adding new features , not only for the famous desktop version, but also the native mobile apps as well.

    The 2017-2018 NHL Hockey season has started and Victorious Club is excited to offer the craziest deal on NHL Hockey ever.

    Victorious Club is offering REAL TIME stats for only $147 per month. Normal price was $797 per month.

    Get NHL Fantasy Hockey added to your site today by clicking this link: https://victorious.club/shop/

    Also, get the entire Formula 1 season here for only $497 one time fee!

    Victorious Club also released a bunch of New Features.  They include

    – End users are now able to send funds to other players
    – New currencies available
    – New payment gateways available – BillMap, FTT and Moneywave
    – Updated injury reserve indicators
    – Updated player stats
    – Updated player images (NBA, NHL and all soccer leagues)
    – Esports stats now available
    – Added new soccer field image when drafting a team
    – Added new Formula 1 track image when drafting a team
    – Show team logo for custom pick em game play
    – Added more informative messages for the first time installers
    – Only for rookies. Mark this check-box and only players with 50 completed contest or less will be able to join a contest
    – Cancel contest. As a website admin, you now able to cancel a contest if something went wrong. Money will be refunded to your users
    – Changed “Player Draft” page UI a bit. Instead of error message we now just hide “add” button. Now you will always know, how many players left available for a specific position
    – Added UEFA Europe League to the supported list of feeds
    – Added MLS to the supported list of feeds
    – Live draft for NFL. Added new game type – it includes snake draft, trading, season long tournaments, waiver wire and much more
    – Added Dashboard page. It displays all major info about your fantasy website. Total income, enabled and available for enabling sports and premium features, summarized info about contests, events, users etc etc.

    Please go ahead and update your version of Fan Victor to receive the updates.

    Get Victorious Club Premium and get extra functionality and more game types.  Victorious Club is offering a special deal on  Premium.  Only $50 per month.  Subscribe here:

    https://victorious.club/shop/

    Premium Includes:
    Allow custom spreads
    Send confirmation email of picks
    Allow export of picks
    Show a statistics page
    Adds an option to show full contests at lobby
    Allow trades during contests that have started
    NFL Defensive players add to draft pick
    and much much more.

    Thank for your continued support.

  • Build Your Own Fantasy Sports Website Without Learning A Single Line Of Code

    Build Your Own Fantasy Sports Website Without Learning A Single Line Of Code

    Build Your Own Fantasy Sports Website Without Learning A Single Line Of Code

    Are you a rabid sports fan?

    Well there are a billion others too!!

    Do you get pumped at the thought of player stats and score averages?

    Well you’re not alone.

    And now YOU have the opportunity to build, own and run your own fantasy sports site.

    Victorious Club is the creator of the world leading Fantasy Sports WordPress plug-in,

    that allows even the layman to build and develop a sports betting website. You don’t have to know a single keystroke of coding.

    It’s all taken care of.

    If you can send an email. You can CREATE your own fantasy sports website.

    As sports lovers and passionate gamers, we have all been there, we go visit a sports betting site or a fantasy sports forum. The big boys like FanDuel or Draft Street for instance, and we end up thinking that we could do it better.

    You follow your NFL,NBA or NHL teams, soccer players and MMA figthers, you compare stats and wage war against opposing teams. But in the back of your mind. There is an inkling of something better, something greater. There is within you a formidable force.

    And we call it….

    FREEDOM

    …to do things your way

    The freedom to do as you see fit, with a website that is all your own. It’s something you have yearned for. As you have while away the hours pouring over other fantasy sports websites that little voice says…

    I CAN DO BETTER THAN THIS…

    And you know what……?

    You’re probably right!

    GO-CREATE

    Everyone has a creative streak and wants to be in control. That’s a general human trait. And as a keen sports betting fan it must REALLY rub you up the wrong way seeing how things are done some times.

    If you have ever stood in front of your TV and yelled at the referee because of a bad decision……

    THEN THIS IS FOR YOU!!

    If you have ever shook your head at the news headlines. As your teams manager is making a mess of your pride and joy.

    THEN THIS IS FOR YOU!!

    Let me be frank. No bull. No sales talk.

    Owning something like a sports betting website is a thrill. Right?

    You see people on Facebook raving about how they trounced the Seahawks last week.

    Or they bet big on their team last Sunday on RotoWorld and scored big time.

    Now….. STOP for a second.

    Imagine that these guys were talking about YOUR website.

    That you had created this epic magnificent religious hall to sports.

    ( I guess that would make you the Pope )

    Wouldn’t it be AWESOME to own that?

    To have that?

    To taste that?

    To see that every day when you fire up your laptop.

    We offer a two fold solution to this feeling you have. This need…

    We can supply the source code for you to build and fully operate a perfect fantasy sports or sports betting website. That means all the code you need to go away and start tinkering around and throwing your site up. We can offer you that.

    You might be….

    …. just a click away from a D.I.Y solution.

    ………..or we can build one for you.

    Yes you heard that right. We are offering to build you a sports betting website from the ground up. Completely personal and customized.

    You have total control. We just do all the tedious head scratching stuff!

    THE-OUT-OF-THE-BOX-SOLUTION

    Now…. we know that there are other out-of-the-box solutions available. I mean we probably even built half of them along the way. But ours is the real deal. The unique article.

    And let us be honest. Coding this from scratch EVEN if you are a WordPress wizard will take you months.

    In fact the code is so intricate and subtle it might not even be possibly to get another company to produce the same results. So not only are you saving money because our offer is WAY below ballpark for an amazing turnkey solution like this.

    You are also saving time. You are saving weeks of headaches and cold coffee.

    SIMPLE-TO-START-AND-RUN

    As with all new things in life it pays to get off to a running start. The most efficient way to get going with anything is to have a helping hand. We are your RIGHT hand all the way.

    We take you through the entire process. From purchasing the fantasy sports site you need.

    To registering the domain name (for example www.play.victorious.club ).

    And even the graphics and branding of the site.

    In fact all you have to do is click order.

    Answer a few simple questions.

    And chill out until your website is up and running.

    Sometimes in a matter of days.

    Then you have your OWN fantasy sports betting website to play with and make profit from if you choose. You can invite all your Facebook buddies to come down and hang out.

    Play some games.

    Win a few.

    Lose a few. (depending on how well you know your game!)

    And sit back in the knowledge that you have created something that’s all yours.

    CASH-IN-ON-YOUR-PASSION

    As with all internet based ventures. The opportunity to earn serious bank is there too. From advertising to Amazon affiliate sales. These little profit streams from rabid sports fans can soon mount up

    Case Study: Noah Kagan is the founder of App Sumo. It’s basically an app bulk buying service with a discount. You get a few Adobe apps or Microsoft apps bundled together for a vastly cheaper price than buying them separately. Anyway…. before that he ran a games company. He would build an NHL game for iPhone. Give it away free and get as many players as he could to join. But…… under all the teams was a link to his Amazon Affiliate account. The players could play for free. But if it was a team they loved, they could click the jersey icon and go to Amazon and buy team related merchandise. Just a little button under each team.

    He made over sixty-thousand-dollars per month doing that!

    Now I’m not saying YOU will do that of course. You have to be honest with this kind of thing. You can’t go making wild claims that people will be a millionaire in a few weeks.

    But you see the possibility right?

    Just placing advertising on your site and affiliate commission links, can sure add up.

    And the best part is, sports betting fans or fans of fantasy sport games…. are usually the most rabid buyers. Some people will just buy ANYTHING that has their team colours on it.

    This is such a sweet moment when you think about it. Hundreds if not thousands of eager sports betting fans looking for an excuse to buy a Lakers beanie hat for $10.

    Now multiply that by a few thousand Lakers beanie hats. And add the fact that you are making a small commission off every sale….

    Do we need to say more….?

    We have helped build hundreds of similar sites all across the world. Each of them making their owner very happy. Every day our customers log into their sports betting site and starting having fun. Making money. And more importantly…….

    THEY-KEEP-SPORT-ALIVE

    With all the furore lately in the news about sports personalities getting paid too much. Or getting into trouble with the law. It takes passionate and tireless guys like you to keep the flame burning. Having your own hub for sports fans all over the planet to come and talk about your hobby. Is as rewarding as any money making idea you might have for the site.

    THIS-IS-THE-AMAZING-VALUE-YOU-GET

    When you order your website from us. We set our team to it and get building your future fantasy sports sandbox right away.

    You Will Get:

    Your own fantasy sports betting website fully built in WordPress and published to the internet.

    Your own domain name. As long as the domain name you want is publicly available you can have what ever you want.

    Full control over the look of the site. The graphics and headers and logo are all changeable and we can custom build them to suit your taste.

    You can invite other users to come and bet on your site.

    You can buy e-currency and play against other users.

    Play head-to-head or multi person contests.

    Create your own contests and invite your friends.

    Peer to peer play for one on one gaming.

    You decide whether to charge for entry or not.

    A complete admin panel for you to control how your game is presented to your users.

    Full automation for stats keeping and gathering.

    It’s a full automated system.

    Once set up it’s a set and forget system. You pay your monthly fee

    and the whole system runs by itself.

    No other product exists right now as a plug-in for Word Press.

    Game Types:

    MMA or Mixed Martial Arts based games

    NFL based games.

    MLB based games.

    NBA based games.

    NHL based games.

    Soccer based games.

    Paypal and Bitcoin compatible.

    You get all this and more in your own custom built website that you can use for fun or profit. And all this amazing value will cost you just (insert price).

    If you set that price against the cost of building this yourself from scratch: you see the true value right there. And now you also see that this kind of project is not beyond your reach.

    You can have this……but!!

    THIS-OFFER-IS-ENDING-SOON

    Now let’s get something straight. We can’t offer this amazing package for very long at this price. I mean we would be swept off our feet if we did.

    If you don’t purchase right away you will lose out on the biggest chance you will ever get. As a sports fan you can’t throw away the chance to own a slice of fantasy sport betting history.

    You could be the next RotoWorld or FanDuel.

    All you need is a passion for the game and a website upon which to build your fantasy sport betting empire. And right here right now: we are offering that website for an amazingly small fee.

    We guarantee you will love your new site. In fact if you don’t we will refund you and happily take your site elsewhere. There are hundreds of hungry sports fans waiting to buy something like this. A slice of the pie.

    But we cannot service them all. There are only so many hours in the day so once your spot is taken it’s taken.

    GET-YOUR-SPORTS-FANTASY
    BETTING-SITE-TODAY

    That dream you had. That yearning and need inside. The times you have logged onto other peoples websites: and kinda wished you had one too. That dream is a click away. Within minutes of taking action and clicking that BUY button your life will be changed forever.

    All those sports stories and anecdotes you share at your local bar. Will have a new meaning. You will be part of something greater than the sum of its parts. To some it may seem like another website. A place for basketball fans to hang out and talk about the latest game.

    A home for NFL freaks who endlessly bet on their team no matter how bad the odds are.

    Guys and girls who……..a single match point can mean the difference between glory and misery.

    BUT GUESS WHAT?

    We know different….

    We know that this website will be the starting point to something bigger and better in your life. Something that can earn you cold hard cash. A website you own.

    And is maintained for you.

    This single moment…. where sport meets passion and commerce. Is where the magic happens.

    Imagine where you could be in a years time if you invest as much effort in growing your own sports betting site: as you do playing on others.

    This is a limitless offer….

    You can take your site ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP…

    All you do is play…

    And it’s the best kind of game of all… a game where you always win.

    So buy your site today.

    Glory awaits the brave……

    P.S – Remember…..if you can send an email. That’s all the technical skill you need.

    You can start your own site today!

    What are you waiting for?
    Now is your chance to make money on the biggest sports niche around

     

    Check out https://Victorious.Club to get started. 

  • Know More About the Fantasy Sports Industry

    Know More About the Fantasy Sports Industry

    The world of fantasy sports has been around for decades. The industry itself has changed over the years as do the rules and details of Fantasy Sports game-play. From processes to rules to details, a lot has been put in place over the years.

    In addition, the involvement of new sport fans, followers, and the players surrounding around the industry especially the legalities and licensing have been in the news the most of recent years.

    But the industry is just starting to take shape now. Due to the amount of information and big data constantly increasing, the numbers continue to show that the Fantasy Sports industry is growing at a rapid pace.

    The the section below, the following numbers highlight interesting numbers and facts to show the latest trends of the fantasy sports domain.

    Credits to the FSTA (Fantasy Sports Trade Association) team for their deep research which helped us figure out these interesting facts.

    So, let’s get started.

    The fantasy sports industry size in terms of revenue is $7.22 billion and in terms of participation, the industry has grown to 59.3 million players playing including both USA and CANADA in 2017. This is a 3.3 % jump from last year.
    Out of this $7.22 billion, $3.27 is contributed from traditional a season long fantasy, $2.91 billion from DFS and $1.04 from the ancillary activities.
    Fantasy sports players are spending a lot on related(ancillary) activities. An estimated $1 Billion dollar is spent on organizing parties, events, purchasing goods, memorabilia etc.
    82% of traditional season fantasy sports players participate in paid fantasy sports contests.
    84% of traditional fantasy sports players attend draft parties and draft events for “all sports”. When it comes to “fantasy soccer”, the number leaps to 92%. Out of these, 67% attend these parties organized at a private house or flat, 54% at local bar/restaurant and 45% at a chain bar/restaurant. And to your surprise 1% online ?
    57% of traditional season long fantasy players enjoy non-draft parties and events like night bars, sports event, league dinner, group trips, golfing etc.
    68% of the fantasy leagues spend money every season in order to punish the league loser. This spending is for tattoo, humiliating trophy, embarrassing tasks to complete, t-shirts etc.
    Coming to daily fantasy sports, DFS players tend to spend 11% more money on purchasing material and information to draft better team and win their contests.
    To add spice to the DFS scenario, 72% DFS players are involved in side bets with another member of fantasy contest. For example, ‘my team will outscore your team this week/season’, or a ‘high score of the week contest’.
    70% of fantasy sports player visit casinos monthly or more often and participate in most of the entertainment activates.
    Fantasy Sports are using ride sharing app for commute. 80% uses Uber and 72% Lyft.

    The time is now to operate your own Fantasy Sports domain

    Fantasy sports players are big time entertainment seekers. They are flexible and open to try and accept new products and features. These statistics showing the $1 billion spending on ancillary activities proves that the participants are ready to spend big time to enhance their experience.
    Fantasy sports is not just about creating fantasy teams and competing with each other. It is far more than that. It’s a reason for society to come close to each through parties, outings, and entertainment.
    Despite various challenges, the fantasy sports industry has shown a stable growth in last one decade. The biggest challenge today is to induce trust, transparency, and fairness in the game to increase new user acquisition.

    About us
    Victorious Club believes that it is crucial to understand the fantasy sports players. We are firm believers of customer focused products. We work with fantasy sports start-ups, sports leagues, casinos, betting operators and sports brands in understanding their end users’ and figuring out how to make a fantasy sports website or mobile app successful and engaging. We specialize in fantasy sports design and development services and offer business consultancy and marketing support to our clients.

    Sign up today at https://victorious.club/victorious-fantasy-sports-plugin-membership/

  • Victorious Club Announces Enhanced Features for Fantasy Sports Platform

    Victorious Club Announces Enhanced Features for Fantasy Sports Platform

    Victorious Club Announces Enhanced Features for Fantasy Sports Platform

    Now, clients can add premier functions to their fantasy sports sites

    ONTARIO, CANADA, MARCH 13, 2017 – The team at Victorious Club is thrilled to announce that they have launched several new enhanced functions that will add new and exciting benefits for clients.

    Victorious Club offers a white label solution for clients seeking a seamless fantasy football software plug-in or a variety of other white label fantasy sports options. With their leading-edge plug-in, clients can create a fantasy sports site in minutes.

    Among the new features, Victorious Club has announced a waiver wire that gives leagues a new way to access players. The waiver wire is a pool of players that aren’t currently on a fantasy team. For instance, if there are 10 fantasy teams with 10 players on each, there are 100 players taken. The remaining players on the waiver wire can be picked up by teams. The leagues must first drop a player to accommodate new their new team member and remain at the maximum 10 players.

    The waiver wire rules are simple: following the weekend games, each team is given waiver priority based on the reverse order of their position. For instance, the team in last place gets first priority, and the team in the lead has last priority.

    Other new features from Victorious Club include enhanced trading that lets teams trade players with each other on the website. Users can now send trading requests to each other, and users have the ability to accept or reject proposals.

    A new live draft feature gives admins the ability to specify a time when all members of the contest can log in and draft their team. A virtual draft room will give players an immersive draft experience.

    Among the new features is a snake draft in which owners participate in each round of the draft by taking turns choosing players in snake draft format. Each team drafts a single player per round until all roster slots are filled, including bench.

    The bench function lets users move players between their starting lineup and reserve bench any time before the game kicks off.

    Facebook sign up support lets players sign up and log in via Facebook, which makes signing in very simple.

    Lastly, injured reserve opens up an additional slot per team. Injured players can be placed in this slot, and users can then choose a player from the waiver wire. For instance, if a marquee player is out for three weeks, the team doesn’t have to lose their player. Instead, they can place him in the injured reserve (IR) during the time he’s injured, and he can be activated once again when he’s healthy.

    Victorious Club continues to develop and shape their innovative plug-in to create an experience that is simple and effective for clients who want to launch successful fantasy sports sites. More information can be found at https://Victorious.Club

    About Victorious Club

    Victorious Club offers a white label fantasy sports platform that can create a fantasy sports website in minutes, including the Victorious Club WordPress plugin.

    Contact

    Victor Ientilucci, Founder

    Fan Victor

    Phone: 416-779-6969

    E-mail: support@Victorious.Club

    Website: https://Victorious.Club

  • Victorious Club Fantasy Sports Plugin for WordPress Newsletter Jan – 2017

    Victorious Club Fantasy Sports Plugin for WordPress Newsletter Jan – 2017

    Happy New Year everyone! We hope everyone had a safe and enjoyable holiday. We know we did with all the great sporting events going on. The team at Victorious Club have been working hard over the holidays and are excited about what the team is bringing into the market for 2017.

    For those of you who don’t know what Victorious Club is, Victorious Club is a leading White Label Fantasy Sports platform.  It can integrate with WordPress as a normal WordPress Plug-in or as a stand alone application. Victorious Club software has all the industry standard features plus way more! We’ve innovated many features and options not available on many other Daily Fantasy Sports Sites. How much does it cost? As low as $497 annually! Additionally, you can completely automate the entire system with Victorious Club Data Feeds starting from $147 a month per sport.

    Victorious Club has added even more great functionality and sports! 2016 was a great year for Victorious Club, it grew by 25% and demand for Fantasy Game Play has never been stronger.  With a product and service like Victorious Club, it makes it easy to build a Fantasy Sports Hub.

    A native iOS App has been developed to complement the native Android App. White label your Fantasy Sports App today.

    Check out our store @ https://Victoroius.club/shop

    Custom game types based on sports have been added as well. Such as Motor Cross – with a custom game play mode called Super Motor Cross! Rugby and year long season game play has also been added.

    Translations into other languages are also supported. The WordPress plug-in has been completely translated into French. Other languages are coming this year.

    New payment gateways have also been added – Priority Payments, Flutter Wave to complement the existing PayPal and PayPal Pro gateways.

    Victorious Club Fantasy Sports has expanded into Europe and Africa with a presence now in Greece, Germany, Ghana and Nigeria.

    Major enhancements for Golf have also been added – 2 new game types added: Best 5 and a Golf Skins game.

    Victorious Club’s own Mixed Sports capabilities have been enhanced as well – Mixed Sports allows you to mix sports for daily and weekly player drafts.

    As 2017 gets into full swing , we have new leagues starting soon:

    Soccer: Copa Libertadores

    Tennis: ATP World Tour

    MotorSport: Nascar

    Rugby: Super Rugby

    Soccer: AFC Champions League

    Soccer: SAF Champions League

    Soccer: MLS

    MotorSport: Formula one

    MotorSport: IndyCar Series

    MotorSport: MotoGP

    Baseball: MLB

    Baseball: NPB

    Cricket: County Championship

    Get your Fantasy Sports site set up and start marketing ASAP!

    Now is the best time to get in on Victorious Club. All updates are ALWAYS free!

    Order now:

    https://Victhttps://victorious.club/victorious-fantasy-sports-plugin-membership/orious.Club

  • Spotify for Linux

    Spotify for Linux

    Here you can find a build of Spotify for Linux.

    Spotify for Linux is released as a Debian package. Our aim is that it should work with the latest Long Term Support release of Ubuntu, but will try to make it work for other releases of Ubuntu and Debian as well.

    Installation

    # 1. Add the Spotify repository signing key to be able to verify downloaded packages
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys BBEBDCB318AD50EC6865090613B00F1FD2C19886

# 2. Add the Spotify repository
echo deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list

# 3. Update list of available packages
sudo apt-get update

# 4. Install Spotify
sudo apt-get install spotify-client
  • STATE OF THE FANTASY SPORTS UNION ADDRESS

    STATE OF THE FANTASY SPORTS UNION ADDRESS

    STATE OF THE FANTASY SPORTS UNION ADDRESS

    Des Boodram

    @boxscoreprophet

    It’s no secret that the Fantasy Sports Industry has come under a great deal over scrutiny over the years, which has increased with the still growing popularity of Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS). There’s no reason to place a great deal of scrutiny on the industry as a whole, instead it’s more necessary to help critics understand why playing fantasy sports is about more than just the sport itself. A clear understanding of this would likely sway even the harshest critics off their stance and possibly into participation.

    The Industry growth has leveled off year over year but has still more than tripled to over $57M since 2006. With the average player spending over $550 per year on fantasy sports I’m no mathematician but that’s over $31B people are spending in just the U.S. and Canada. More women are playing fantasy spots than ever, in fact over 1/3 of that $57M are women, and no this community isn’t bored with too much time on their hands, over 66% of the demographic is college educated. With the average player being 38.5 years of age, it’s good to know I have a few prime years left, but at the end of the day regardless of you feel, this industry is strong, and not going anywhere. In fact the Industry as a whole caters way too much human nature to outright ignore. The chances are, especially if you’re a sports fan that you are in close relations with someone who not just play, but commits to fantasy sports as a full-blown hobby. There are almost too many human elements to list, but social usually tops the list for most players. There is a strong power and control element that should be factored in and healthy competition is generally welcomed. For many it makes watching their favorite sport more interesting, and why wouldn’t it.

    This is why sites like FanDuel and DraftKings though being beacons for the industry along with sites like Yahoo, ESPN and CBS that host traditional fantasy sports platform will likely share the driver seats with revolutionary sites like Victorious Club are likely to earn to large part of the fantasy pie in the next few years. Victorious Club works because it engages a portion of an already large demographic that overflows to a wide age, gender and economic range. The demographic is huge, but a high percentage of it wants nothing more to have more power, more control, more competition and more fun. At  Victorious Club an individual can create their own customized fantasy sports site with a completely automated turnkey solution that allows the users to make money. Calling your own shots has never been easier, and Victorious Club gives anyone who has ever wanted to run their own site the opportunity to do so doing all the heavy lifting. The ultimate fantasy sports plug in the next big thing, but the folks at Victorious Club have been around for years. Whether you are a fantasy sports enthusiast or a soon to be enthusiast Victorious Club is reshaping how you will do fantasy sports and I think you will like it.

  • How Attackers Gain Access to WordPress Sites

    This entry was posted in General Security, Learning, Research on March 23, 2016 by Dan Moen

    On this blog we write a lot about different vulnerabilities that could lead to site compromise. In our Learning Center we go deep on a myriad of important topics related to WordPress security. Our handy checklist, for example, includes 42 items you really should be paying attention to. But surely not all 42 items are equally important, right? In today’s post we dive into some very interesting data we gathered a couple of weeks ago in a survey, letting the facts tell us what matters most.

    The question we asked in the survey was:

    If you know how your site was compromised please describe how the attackers gained access.

    The answers were free form text, so we manually categorized the answers. If the respondent expressed any doubt in their answer, we categorized them as uncertain.

    Most Site Owners Don’t Know

    Of the 1,032 survey respondents who answered this question, 61.5% didn’t know how the Attacker compromised their website. That is a not a huge surprise given that the large majority of respondents cleaned their sites themselves, but it is troubling. It is impossible to be confident that you have cleaned your site completely or that the vulnerability doesn’t still exist without knowing how the site was compromised in the first place.

    For the site owners who did figure out how the attackers entered, here is what the breakdown looks like:

    hacked_website_how_compromised

     

    In the balance of this post we’re going to focus primarily on the top two risks. Because if you can protect yourself against plugin vulnerabilities and brute force attacks, you are accounting for over 70% of the problem.

    Plugins Are Your Biggest Risk

    Plugins play a big part in making WordPress as popular as it is today. As of this writing there are 43,719 plugins available for download in the official WordPress plugin directory. That is an incredible selection of plug and play software. But you obviously need to be careful with them, as plugin vulnerabilities represented 55.9% of the known entry points reported by respondents.

    Some tips for avoiding plugin vulnerabilities:

    Keep them updated

    Reputable plugin authors fix vulnerabilities very quickly when discovered. By keeping them up to date you insure that you benefit from fixes before attackers can exploit them. We recommend that you check for updates at least weekly. In addition we recommend that you pay attention to the alerts generated by Wordfence scans. Wordfence alerts you when your plugins need to be updated.

    Don’t use abandoned plugins

    You are relying on the plugin developer to insure that their code is free of vulnerabilities. If they are no longer providing updates there is a high likelihood that there are vulnerabilities that have not been fixed. We recommend avoiding plugins that have not been updated in over 6 months. For plugins you have already installed we recommend you conduct an audit at least quarterly to make sure none of your plugins have been abandoned by their authors.

    Only download plugins from reputable sites
    If you are going to download plugins somewhere other than the official WordPress repository, you need to make sure the website is reputable. One of the easiest ways for attackers to compromise your website is to trick you into loading malware yourself. An attacker will do this by setting up a website that looks legitimate and getting you to download a compromised or ‘nulled’ plugin.

    Use these tips to help determine whether a site is a reputable source or not:

    • Eye Test – Is the site itself professionally designed and uses clear language to describe the product? Or does it look like it was thrown together quickly by a single individual?
    • Company Information – Does the site belong to a company with the company name in the footer?
    • TOS and Privacy Policy – Do they have terms of service and a privacy policy?
    • Contact Info – Do they provide a physical contact address on the contact page or in their terms of service?
    • Domain Search – Google the domain name in quotes e.g. “example.com“. Do you find any reports of malicious activity. Add the word ‘theme’ or ‘plugin’ next to the quoted domain name in your search and see what that reveals.
    • Name Search – Do a Google search for the name of the plugin and see if any malicious activity is reported. Add the phrase “malware” or “spyware” to the search which may reveal forums discussing a malicious version of the theme being distributed.
    • Vulnerability Search – Do a search for the theme or plugin name or the vendor name and include the word “vulnerability”. This will help you find out if any vulnerabilities have been reported for the product you’re interested in or for the vendor. If they have fixed the vulnerability in a timely manner, that usually indicates they are a responsible vendor who is actively maintaining their product when problems arise.

    Brute Force Attacks Are Still A Big Problem

    A brute force attack is a password guessing attack. The attacker needs to both identify a valid username on your website and then guess the password for that username. Despite the availability of methods and technology that are 100% effective, this type of attack is still a huge problem, representing 16.1% of known entry points in our survey.

    Some tips for avoid a hack via brute force attack:

    Use Cellphone Sign-in

    Also referred to as two factor authentication, this approach requires the user to not only know their password, but to have possession of their cell phone as well. This technology is 100% effective in preventing brute force attacks. Wordfence premium includes this feature today.

    Don’t Use Obvious Usernames

    The most obvious usernames to avoid are ‘Admin’ and ‘Administrator’, they are the most common usernames attempted in brute force attacks. Also avoid using your domain name, company name and the names of people who are writing for your blog or are listed elsewhere on your website.

    Enable Login Security in Wordfence

    The free version of Wordfence provides a long list of login security features. By making sure they are enabled, you benefit from the following features:

    • Enforce strong passwords
    • Locking users out after a defined number of login failures
    • Locking out users after a number of forgot password attempts
    • Locking out invalid usernames
    • Preventing WordPress from revealing valid usernames in login errors
    • Preventing username discovery through author scans
    • Immediate blocking of IPs that try to sign in as a defined list of usernames.

    Other Steps to Secure your Site

    Keeping everything up-to-date is key. There are no serious known vulnerabilities in the current version of WordPress core. There are however, a large number of known vulnerabilities in older WordPress versions. So keeping WordPress core up-to-date is very important. The WordPress team responds quickly when an issue is reported and so should you.

    Many of our respondents indicated that their hosting account was compromised in some way. Make sure that you have a strong password policy for your CPanel account and any other server or hosting related accounts. Also ensure that you remove any applications on your server, like phpmyadmin, that aren’t absolutely necessary. If you don’t, you will have to maintain them too and ensure they’re updated and secure. Each application is another endpoint that can be attacked. The less you have to protect, the lower your risk.

    Secure your workstation by keeping your operating system and applications up-to-date. Running an old vulnerable web browser, or an old version of Flash or Adobe reader can make you vulnerable to phishing attacks that can compromise your workstation. Once you workstation is compromised, an attacker can easily install a keyboard logger to capture usernames and passwords. They will gain access to much more than your WordPress website.

    Store passwords securely. Do not store them in plaintext in a document online that may be compromised. You can use a product like 1Password which provides an encrypted ‘vault’ to store your passwords in.

    Finally, as we’ve said before, delete any old data you don’t need from your website. This includes backup files you don’t need, log files, applications you don’t use or anything else you don’t need on your site. Old data is one more possible entry point that needs to be protected and if you can remove it, you reduce risk.

    Conclusion

    WordPress security is a battle fought on many fronts, as evidenced by the 42 items on our checklist and the depth and breadth of subjects in our ever evolving Learning Center. But knowledge is power, and this survey data allows us to focus on what matters most. We hope that you take the opportunity to make improvements in how you select and manage plugins on your website. We also hope that you review your approach to brute force attack protection. Small investments in these areas will pay big security dividends. Stay safe!

  • Victorious Club – Daily Fantasy Sports

    Victorious Club – Daily Fantasy Sports

    Source:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_fantasy_sports

     

     

    Daily fantasy sports (DFS) are a subset of fantasy sport games. As with traditional fantasy sports games, players compete against others by building a team of professional athletes from a particular league or competition, and earn points based on the actual statistical performance of the players in real-world competitions. Daily fantasy sports are an accelerated variant of traditional fantasy sports that are conducted over short-term periods, such as a week or single day of competition, as opposed to those that are played across an entire season. Daily fantasy sports are structured in the form of competitions (typically referred to as a “contest”); users pay an entry fee in order to participate, and build a team of players in a certain sport while complying with a salary cap. Depending on their overall performance, players may win a share of a pre-determined pot. Entry fees help fund prizes, while a portion of the entry fee goes to the provider as rake-off revenue.

    In the United States, the daily fantasy sports industry is dominated by two competing services; the New York-based FanDuel, and the Boston-based DraftKings. Both companies were established as venture capital-backed startup companies, received funding from investment firms, sports broadcasters, leagues, and team owners, and became known for the aggressive marketing of their services. As of September 2015, both companies have an estimated value of at least $1 billion in the United States, and control 95% of the DFS market there. The two primarily compete against smaller DFS services, such as Fantasy Aces and Yahoo! Sports. The popularity of the daily fantasy format has been credited to its convenience in comparison to season-length games, as well as the focus on major cash prizes in the promotion of these services. Daily fantasy has also been credited with helping to improve television viewership and engagement with sports.

    Today, a new tool for creating Fantasy Sports Websites is available.  Fan Victor is remarkable WordPress plug-in that convert WordPress into a site like FanDuel and DraftKings with much more functionality, sports and game types.  Site administrators from all over the world are using it for every time of niche imaginable.

    Daily fantasy sports have faced notable legal challenges in the United States, such as most prominently, discussion over whether they constitute gambling. It has been argued that due to their format, players are essentially making proposition wagers on the varying performance of individual athletes in specific games, and not managing the performance of their selections on a week-to-week basis. Proponents have defended DFS as being a game of skill, as the required familiarity with the players and teams, as well as salary cap management, reward more skilled players.

    The United States’ Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIEGA) contains language dictating that fantasy sports are not considered an unlawful wager under the act; however, the act only prohibits the electronic transfer of funds from unlawful gambling as defined under state laws—which typically define gambling by either the predominance of chance over skill in a game, or how much control the player has over the outcome. The U.S. states of Illinois, Nevada, New York, Texas, and Hawaii have issued rulings or opinions classifying DFS contests as gambling, with Attorney Generals in all of these states but Nevada (which declared that they are only legal if operated as a licensed sports pool) considering them to be illegal. The Illinois and New York rulings—the latter having resulted from an investigation of DFS services after it was alleged that employees working for DraftKings and FanDuel had used inside information to win cash prizes from each other, spawned retaliatory lawsuits from DraftKings and FanDuel, alleging that the rulings were the result of a misinterpretation of the nature of their services.

    Gameplay

    There are several main disciplines of daily fantasy sports competitions, divided into two categories: cash games, and guaranteed prize pool (GPP). DFS contests typically utilize a salary cap format, in which players are allotted a maximum budget to spend on athletes for their team, represented as either play money or points. Each athlete has their own cost, with elite athletes having the highest costs.

    In “Double-up” or “50/50” cash game competitions, the object is to finish with a point total within the top 50% of all participants; players who finish in the top half of the field all share an equal prize that is equal to double the entry fee, while the remainder lose their entry fee. Head-to-head competitions are similar, except that players choose an opponent they must beat to win the prize. Guaranteed prize pool contests have higher stakes, using tiered payouts based on finishing in different percentiles or positions of the field of contestants.[10] Further variations of double-up games, including Triple-up, Quadruple-up, and Quintuple-up, may also be offered.[11]

    Daily fantasy games exist in a variety of major sports, depending on service, including but not limited to American football (including college football and the NFL), association football (soccer), auto racing, baseball, basketball, cricket, golf, hockey, rugby league and rugby union. Daily fantasy contests have also been held in professional e-sports competitions, such as League of Legends

    Skill of players

    Inexperienced players may be at a disadvantage due to the skill of their opponents;[14] Bloomberg Businessweek acknowledged that the majority of prize money in daily fantasy games were often won by a minority of professional players, or “sharks“, who employ “elaborate statistical modeling and automated tools that can manage hundreds of entries at once and identify the weakest opponents”. Professional players may also engage in the practice of “bumhunting”—in which they utilize their heavy saturation of entries to target inexperienced players.

    A study by McKinsey & Company over the first half of the 2015 MLB season estimated that 91% of winnings were won by only 1.3% of players. FanDuel CEO Nigel Eccles disputed the study due to the larger draw that daily fantasy football provides.

    Outlining his opinion on the matter, Kang explained that:

    D.F.S., the game itself, is not inherently crooked. Most of the benefits praised by its enthusiasts — the ease of play, the camaraderie among fans, the challenge of solving what amounts to a math puzzle — are real. It does take skill to parse game film, diligently follow the news and interpret the thousands of bits of sports information that are generated each night. If a problem gambler at the poker rooms I frequent in New York City were to hire a programmer and flood the D.F.S. market with his lineups, he would almost certainly hemorrhage money.

    In January 2016, DraftKings announced that it would implement changes to counter some of these issues, including banning the use of off-site scripting by players, introducing a classification system to identify professional players, and adding entry limits to its non-guaranteed contests. The site had also added “beginner” contests and the ability for users to block players they do not wish to compete against.

    Victorious Club – Fantasy Sports Plugin is the only WordPress plugin that allows you to operate your own fantasy sports website easily!

  • Victorious Club Launches the NFL 2015 season for Fantasy Football

    Victorious Club Launches the NFL 2015 season for Fantasy Football

    Victorious Club Updates


    NFL pre-season has started!

    Victorious Club has you covered with the 2015 NFL season and now includes pre-season. Subscribe today and get $100 off any NFL plan. This offer is valid only until the end of the month. Thats right, run your own NFL Fantasy Sports website today with the Victorious Club plug-in and our integrated NFL stats.

    Special Rates:

    Real time stats: $747 / month

    Delayed 15 minutes: $547 / month

    Delayed 3 hours: $347 / month

    Updated once per day: $147

    Get all the schedules, player rosters, player news, game updates, player updates all automated for you. Played daily and weekly now, yes weekly!

    Victorious Club is running a contest for a chance to WIN NFL 2015 Real Time Stats for Free.

    Simply post a comment on:

    https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/fantasy-sports/

    Your user-name will be entered to win a free 2015 NFL season for Real Time stats with use of the Victorious Club plug-in. Tell us why you love using our plug-in. Get posting today.

     

    Version 2.1.20 of the plug-in was released July 16 2015.

    The main release points are:

    – Added custom rake percentages per contest instead of just site wide.

    – Enhanced profit statistics reporting on event statistics page

    – Enhanced statistics pages for MLS

     

    Victorious Club has also deployed an infrastructure instance in Singapore. Now you can have a presence in South East Asia. Please contact support@victorious.club if you are interested in using our Singapore data center.

     

    Victorious Club Premium

    Victorious Club now comes in a Premium version as well. With Premium Victorious Club the following feature are enabled:

    – SSL Support. Encrypt your sites content and protect it from hackers

    – Ability to enter custom spreads on pick em games

    – Users get a confirmation email after submitting their picks

    – Export pick function for site administrators

    – Show stats tables on the front end for users to see

    – Option to show contests that are full in the lobby

    We are constantly adding more features to the Victorious Club Premium package all the time. You can get your copy here:

    Victorious Club Membership Sign Up Page

    Remember we are always adding new products and features monthly now, so be sure to check out our store at :

    https://Victorious.Club/Shop