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Protect Your Online Presence: The Importance of Regular Website Backups and Robust Cybersecurity

In today’s digital era, businesses of all sizes must establish a robust online presence. Your website is more than just a digital presence; it’s a virtual storefront and the face of your business online. It enables customers to discover “Your customers interact with your brand by purchasing your products or services. Because of its crucial …

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The Importance of Keeping Your Website Software Up To Date

In today’s digital era, a website serves as a crucial platform for businesses, organizations, and individuals to reach their target audience. However, simply having a website is not enough to ensure its success; it is equally important to keep the website software up to date. Keeping your website software up to date provides numerous benefits, …

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GoDaddy says a multi-year breach hijacked customer websites and accounts

Dan Goodin – 2/17/2023, 3:43 PM https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/godaddy-says-a-multi-year-breach-hijacked-customer-websites-and-accounts/ GoDaddy said on Friday that its network suffered a multi-year security compromise that allowed unknown attackers to steal company source code, customer and employee login credentials, and install malware that redirected customer websites to malicious sites. GoDaddy is one of the world’s largest domain registrars, with nearly 21 …

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Recovering From a Hack

I recently recovered a client website from a series of hacks. The hacking spanned more than a week and it encompassed three different types of hacks. The third one was the most pervasive as it inserted files in every folder on the server. The cleansing process was tedious as there was no backup to restore …

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Are You Ready for the Holidays?

As a website owner you should be well underway to having your site ready for the holiday season. This is an imperative for online shops and equally important for brick and mortar or service businesses. This is the time to fine tune your website and ensure it is is well-tuned for the rush. Have you …

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Is Your Website Up to Date?

If you own or manage an open source content management system (CMS) based website it is imperative that you keep its components and base code current. Examples of open source CMS foundations are WordPress, Joomla and Drupal. All are excellent CMS foundations however they must be maintained. Not only must the core of your website …

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The Shutdown Blues

In the midst of the government shutdown we have seen an increase in data breaches and website hacking. Critical federal cyber analysts have been furloughed so no one is able to analyze the plethora of intrusion data collected by federal cyber systems. Just this morning Fox News reported a massive data leak at the Oklahoma …

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Are You in Compliance?

A recent article on NBC News discussed how publicly traded companies who don’t stop hacking of their systems could by breaking federal law.  While you may not be a public company, the gist of the story indicates how serious cyber crime prevention is. The last thing you want is to have your customer data obtained by …

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Since 2003, October has been designated as National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. It is an annual campaign to raise awareness about the importance of cybersecurity and to be a better digital citizen.  Cybersecurity is part of what I do so it is important for me to impart the significance of website security. With the holidays approaching …

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