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Whether you run a business blog or an e-commerce site, it contains sensitive information, making it a lucrative target for cybercriminals. Even your smallest vulnerability can entice them to target your platform with DDoS attacks, refund fraud, and other malicious practices that may damage your business.
So it’s difficult to deny the importance of fraud protection – a complex of practices that safeguards your business against malicious attacks. But where to start? [Read more…]
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Two-Factor Authentication is an awesome feature that adds an almost insurmountable second layer of security to any online account that supports it.
And luckily, most online services do support it nowadays.
In a nutshell, Two-Factor Authentication works by requiring anyone trying to log into an account to enter a security code they received on YOUR mobile phone before being allowed to log in to your account.
That makes your account a lot more secure because anyone trying to log into it would need physical access to YOUR mobile phone in order to receive the security code.
When choosing a web host, site owners focus on speed, uptime, technical resources, and support. SiteGround has been a known player, but GreenGeeks has earned strong recommendations from user tests, recent industry benchmarks, and public data.
This analysis reviews factual comparisons from verified sources to show where GreenGeeks holds an edge and why it is the preferred choice for speed and reliability.
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It seems that fraudsters are all over the Internet these days, and many of them spam us with messages that turn up in our email inboxes on a daily basis.
And they’re pretty good at producing some rather legitimate-looking, and fairly convincing messages too.
If you’ve been using the Internet for any length of time, you’ve no doubt seen a bunch of them.
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Yet another Facebook-related scam is making the rounds, but this one isn’t being perpetrated on the Facebook website.
It’s actually taking place on Messenger app instead.
As Facebook scams go, this one is pretty simple but it’s also unusually widespread.
In a nutshell, the scam goes something like this… [Read more…]