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Malicious Hosting Account Attacks on the Increase
Over the last few months 2 of my clients have had the security of their hosting accounts breached by spammers inserting scripts to activate illegal mass mailing campaigns. The result was that the server administrators had to immediately put the hosting accounts into suspension until the offending scripts were removed. In other words the websites [...]
Domain Name Renewal Scam
Recently I have had a couple of clients who received bogus letters ‘inviting’ them renew their domain name . . . for up to 10 times the normal renewal rate! Well, I suppose if you are going to try it on you may as well set your sites high Seriously though, these bogus domain renewals [...]
Promoting your business and website online
Often, when I talk with business owners and managers about their website, it is apparent they have a very limited knowledge of how to use the Internet to promote their business or the new website I’ll be building for them. With the Internet now such a mainstay of business communications it’s a concern that too [...]
Who is looking after your website?
It is a fair question, but unfortunately one that is often surrounded by misplaced assumptions. Is it the web host? Surely they do backups and can restore a site if there is any problem. Is it the the web designer? Surely they can simply re-instate it from a copy of the original. Is it the [...]