Recommendations (simple ones) for small businesses needing to improve Account Credentials records.
SMB Account Credentials Managment
Merry Christmas! Your website’s been hacked.
If a human in one minute looking at access logs can discover the website's been hacked? Who's more at fault? The Host or the site owner?
Top Tier Web Management – Agency Minimums Commonly Exceed $25k/yr.
SMB's typically spend 100 times less per year than their Medium or Large business competition. How does this affect Small Business in the Digital Marketplace? What are they missing?
Website Hacking — Strong case for Shared Managed Hosting
"Get faster, get shared. Get secure, get managed." Web Hosting best practices for Sole Prop's and Managers who "wear all the hats."
World War “IT” — Are Linux Duffers the “National Guard” of Tech?
One of the conversations I'm having more often (say in the past 20 months) is "continuity" planning -- in the event that "World War IT" breaks out -- how are businesses going to continue? If communication utilities are hacked? How will we rebuild B-B and B-C networks if the internet is shaky -- fall backs…
Ad Injection Malware Removal — Mac
If your Mac has ad-injection software installed, you might see pop-up windows, ads, and graphics while surfing the web, even if "Block pop-up windows" is selected in Safari preferences.
Best $5 monthly fee we pay – just got better!
Our solutions design process builds on free services. If needed we look at paying fees, we always aim for minimal expense. So,we've had a policy -- begin with Google Hosted services. If for some reason clients can identify a legitimate reason the enterprise tools can't work, or be extended... we'll start looking at self-hosted or other…
Encryption — Email is next
Reading through my feeds, I see recent posts from various sources that Google, Facebook and others are beginning to realize that: Server to Server encryption of Email messages is never going to be secure. TLS (Transport Layer Security) - a minimal implementation that allows servers to converse and exchange messages more securely -- is not adopted…
eBay password change? Now’s a good time.
Change your password. If you have an account, that is. Here is a link to a walk-you-through the strokes to get it done: BEFORE start any changes ... Be sure to review all of your settings, especially your mobile telephone number. I prefer receiving the secondary authentication by text, so if the number was wrong?…
PassWord Security
It's no longer okay to share security credentials by email. There, you have it. A line in the sand. Even if you go the extra distance: to send the UserID in one message and the Password in another, nope. Here is a tool I recommend: www.PassPack.com Some excellent ingredients here... Very secure Available to you…
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