In its most basic form, here’s how a phishing scam works:
- A scammer emails you a link
- You click on the link
- You give the scammer your username and password
Sound like something you’d never fall for? Read on to be sure.
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If your domain is registered with Network Solutions, it’s likely that your website and email are currently down. Here’s what they posted on their Facebook page: Some of you have posted about issues with your sites....
Java has not had a good 2013 so far, suffering from several critical security vulnerabilities in just the first few weeks of the year. The vulnerabilities are so dangerous that the Department of Homeland Security is advising people to disable Java in their web browsers.
Read on to find out how to keep your computers safe by disabling the Java web plugin.
We often receive the following request from our customers:
It’s time for our business insurance policy to renew, and the insurance company says our contact form is not secure. They will not renew our policy unless the form is secured with HTTPS. Can you help?
What your insurance company wants is to make sure any information your customers submit through your website is secure (encrypted in a way that it cannot be intercepted).
It may appear to the untrained eye that your contact form is not secure, but if we host your website, you can rest assured that it is. If you want to know how you can verify this, whether we host your website or not, continue reading…
If you have an insurance website from Banyan Theory, you’ll be happy to know that we’ve taken steps to protect your site from the upcoming end of the world (which, as the Mayans have told us, will occur on December 21, 2012). We want to ensure that your website will remain available in the off chance that anyone survives the end of the world and they need information about their insurance.
Over the past couple of years, we’ve been formulating ideas that would protect our servers from such a scenario. Here are our ideas: