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Forgive me if I appear annoyed. Unfortunately, messages like these are quite common. As website developers, we see them far too often. They waste our time. They are based on outright lies. What bothers me the most is that these messages frighten our web clients into...
Phishing - attempts to trick people into giving up sensitive information - has been on the rise for many. many years now. Even seasoned internet individuals can fall prey to the bad actors perpetrating this criminal activity. The Phish Here is an example of a text I...
Practically everyone living on the planet Earth should understand what phishing is by now. But for those who might not, a Google search brought this up for me: "the fraudulent practice of sending emails purporting to be from reputable companies in order to induce...
What is Phishing? Phishing is defined as the fraudulent practice of sending emails purporting to be from reputable companies in order to induce individuals to reveal personal information, such as passwords and credit card numbers. Phishing attempts continue at an...
I cannot begin to tell you how many people believe that once their website is done they are "all set". Many think they don't have to do anything more to it once it is out there live. While that may seem true in that moment, there is still much that needs to happen and...
Almost all businesses get the usual spam SEO (Search Engine Optimization) phone calls and emails. Recently, one of our web clients took a spammer's SEO phone call. As a result of such calls, she emailed us. Her concerns prompted this article. She expressed a lot of...
The lost revenue to individuals and companies responding to and falling prey to these phishing messages is enormous. We in the web field lose considerable amounts of time that we could be working on websites answering queries about such matters. It is obviously part...
CharlesWorks uses Let's Encrypt to provide SSL (Secure Socket Layers) for your web presence! Note: On websites hosted after January 1, 2020, CharlesWorks automatically offers the FREE Let's Encrypt encryption service to offer SSL certificates for sites hosted on our...
We've been extremely busy over the past year and haven't gotten our newsletter out as often as we'd have liked to. We are sending this particular one out to let you know about ongoing attacks on the Internet, the most recent of which have been targeting in particular...
"A 2010 study by Google found in excess of 11,000 domains hosting fake anti-virus software, accounting for 50% of all malware delivered via internet advertising." The Fake Antivirus Software or Fake Virus Detection Software Scams If you go anywhere on the Internet,...
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