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The hackers strike again! Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Yahoo and Google report that 2 million+ accounts around the world have been hacked with one of the latest types of malware that copies login information from users. Trustwave, a web security firm, stated that the theft of login usernames and passwords during the past month was due […]

November 11th is an important day in the United States. It is Veterans’ Day…a day when we thank and honor those who served and who are serving our country to preserve our freedoms. But what does Veteran’s Day really stand for? Is it a day to just say “Hey, thanks for the job you did.”?

Your website being hacked is a big enough problem to deal with; however, if Google thinks that your site has been infected with a virus, your big problem can become a nightmare. Google can “quarantine” your site even after it has been repaired. What they aren’t saying is that they are actually blacklisting hacked/infected sites. There

  ‘Tis the season for more than just shopping, family and overeating. It’s virus season…for you as well as your computer. The Crypto Locker virus is new and it can have devastating results, such as hijacking your computer and wiping out everything on it. This virus is generally in an email that looks like it

“Wait…What?!? Hey, I can’t send or receive any email!” Has this ever happened to your company? If so, then your IP address has been blacklisted by other mail servers because they think your email address and/or domain is spamming. When this happens, everyone you try to send email to that uses that mail server bounces

Efficient blogging, from topic choice through research, writing, images, catchy title, SEO and publishing should take you less than an hour. You may be wondering how you can speed up your blog writing so here are a few tips… 1) Choose a topic that will grab your readers’ attention. When you run across an interesting

Make the #hashtag abuse stop! Hash tags can be a great marketing tool when used properly and have been effectively used on Twitter and Google+ for several years. However, if over used such as we see on Facebook, they can be just plain irritating.   #Hashtag with Jimmy Fallon & Justin Timberlake   Hashtag usage

This flaw could be a hacker’s paradise since they can bypass your security software. This may affect all versions of Internet Explorer and every release of Windows, which means no one using this browser is safe. On October 8, 2013, there will be four Critical updates and four Important updates released for Internet Explorer. According

Google is 15 years old, today, September 27, 2013! Google has become a giant in the wide world of the Web. So much so that “Google it” is a commonplace term, worldwide, to search for anything on the internet. Co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, were still attending Stanford University when they rented the garage

  How secure is your website? You’re with a company who hosts and maintains websites so you believe that you have nothing to worry about. That’s not always true. Just recently, LivingSocial was the victim of a cyber attack in which 50 million accounts were hacked. That’s crazy, you say? LivingSocial is huge and they

WHAT? Yes, you read that correctly. On August 27, 2013, The New York Times’ website crashed due to an attack on Melbourne IT, the NYT’s domain name registrar. According to ABC News, Melbourne IT released a statement that an “unknown party accessed a reseller account with a stolen ID and password and used that access

Were you hit by the Google outage on August17, 2013? Internet traffic around the world was reduced by about 40% when Google had a complete blackout for up to 5 minutes. The fact that world-wide internet traffic was so significantly impacted just goes to show how much we depend on Google to stay up and

If you see the message “Your computer has been blocked” from Department of Homeland Security’s ICE Cyber Crime Center, your computer is infected with a virus known as Trojan Reveton. This virus can infect your computer through a variety of methods, such as hacked websites, spam email, or by tricking you into thinking you are

Using Joomla content management system for your website? Check out the version you have to see if you need a security patch ASAP! It’s crucial to ensure you have the latest update that was recently released. Without this patch, your website is vulnerable to hackers’ exploits. This patch is for versions 2.5.x to 2.5.13 and

Are you keeping up with the latest trends in website design, Austin? If not, you could be missing out on some valuable tools. Today, we’re addressing 3 website design trends: Responsive Design, Mobile Design, and Social Media. Responsive Design: Have you ever heard of responsive design? It’s a simple concept. Responsive design is a way

  You expect truth in advertising from any company whose products you use. But we all know that marketing departments bend the truth. How much is too much? Companies pay people to endorse products that wouldn’t be on their typical shopping list. However, what you don’t expect is a company publishing a blatant lie and

Facebook Announces Video on Instagram! You heard it right! Did you know that Instagram has 10 times more users than Twitter’s Vine? Finally, Vine has some direct competition. According to Instagram CEO, Kevin Systrom, “Video on Instagram is the same Instagram we all know and love … but it moves.” By offering a beautiful and

Join every social network that you can find. If you try to remain active on every social network, you probably won’t have time for your actual work load. It’s a good idea to research the audience on each site. By doing so, you will be able to identify the interest of each group. If the