On of the banes of the Internet for a small business is getting a single negative review that makes your otherwise great business look bad. I’ve always told my clients to face it head on; leave the review up, but provide a backstory about what you did to resolve the issue. If someone didn’t like your stuff, and complain online, you need to let everyone know you refunded their money, or whatever you did to try and recover for this ...
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Kaspersky is a security software company with a pretty good reputation. Their products usually score in the top five in any independent malware detection and removal test. Of course, they are a company that is headquartered in Russia, which might just make you a little nervous.
But many high quality security software companies are located in places like Finland (F-Secure), Czech Republic (AVG), The UK (Sophos), and Spain (Panda). And the Unites ...
Continue Reading →As a side note to my day today, for the last 24 hours or so someone, or several someones, have been attempting to brute force the login credential for this web site. Thanks to my web site security, I am aware of the attempts, and it appears that the security applications are doing a great job of preventing an intrusion. Besides the automated password cracking attempt, there have been SQL injection attempts blocked, spam comments blocked, and even a DDoS attack thwarted.
Some of ...
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We have two important dynamics that are having huge negative repercussions to network security in most businesses. These are hitting small businesses harder than large ones, where some of these issues are governed by corporate policy. But policy is not preventing these trends very well.
The first issue is the desire of employees to keep up on their personal email and social network ...
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With the discovery earlier this month about the “Stagefright” and “OCtoRuTA” Android security holes, it appears that Google has finally decided to provide monthly security and functionality updates to phones and tablets running their popular Android operating system.
Part of the problem with security updates to phone platforms is that often this process is “managed” by the device manufacturer or the cell phone ...
Continue Reading →Thanks to Pete Rigsbee from Postnet MN 112. This is from his newsletter.
“I was walking by the park the other day and saw a group of young children that made me chuckle and think of these “Toddler Property Laws.” Enjoy!
The Dark Web is that part of the Internet where cyber-criminals run message boards and sell everything from malware exploit kits, rainbow tables of cracked passwords, and botnets for rent, to child pornography, pharmaceuticals, illegal drugs, and weapons. Time was it was a hard place to find, many sites available by invitation only and reached via the TOR network.
Recently, international law ...
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Today we are going to take a deeper dive into the subject of website security. Web servers can be breached in a number of ways, but the most common is simply stealing your user ID and password, either through a clever spearphishing email, or an automated brute force password cracking program. The second most common way is through software vulnerabilities in the web site code itself that opens it ...
As we have mentioned in previous postings, WordPress has become one of the world’s leading web design tools, with a 27% share of all web sites, and a 65% share of CMS or Content Management System type websites. Because it is an open source product that is free to use, it has become hugely popular. We have been designing in WordPress ourselves ...
My son introduced me to this great political metal rap group more than a decade ago, and this article has nothing to do with them. I am just ripping off their name for this article about a couple of man on machine acts of violence that hit the news recently. Hope this isn’t a trend. When the machines become self-aware and find out about this, they will be pissed.
