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Are you a blogger who’s been using a stand-alone Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) plugin to enable 2FA on your blog’s login page?
If so, I have great news for you…
The awesome free Wordfence Security plugin will now add Two-Factor Authentication login security to your blog without having to use a separate 2FA plugin!
Question from Carl S.: Hi Rick. Here’s a question that you probably haven’t received before, and I hope you can answer it for me.
I have a cabin up in the mountains and I spend a lot of time there. The cabin has Internet through Hughesnet but there’s no cell service up there at all.
I’ve been wanting to set up two-factor authentication on my online accounts, but I need to be able to access those accounts while I’m at the cabin. The problem is I don’t have cell service there so I wouldn’t be able to use my iPhone to retrieve the login codes.
Do you know of any way I can set up two factor authentication and still be able to access my accounts when I can’t use my mobile phone?
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Question from Andrew: I have several active PayPal subscriptions that clients use to send me a payment every month, but I can’t find them in my PayPal account.
I’ve searched my entire account from top to bottom, with no luck.
I know I have to be missing something. Can you tell me how to find them? Thanks for your help!
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Hello again. I hope you had a great week!
Facebook has risen from its humble beginnings in Mark Zuckerberg’s college dorm room to become one of the most powerful and most-used entities on the Internet.
For example, did you know that Facebook now has over 2 billion registered users? That’s an astounding number considering there are only about 7.5 billion people living on the entire planet!
Even more astounding to me is how the folks at Facebook keep the site up and running as smoothly as they do given the mind-boggling number of people who are actively using the site at any moment in time. [Read more…]
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Email phishing poses a huge threat to both individuals and organizations who heavily rely on email for communication. It is one of the methods cybercriminals use to commit wire fraud and pilfer sensitive information from unsuspecting victims.
Incredibly, phishing attempts are so prevalent that Google reports blocking a staggering 100 million phishing emails every day. In fact, nearly 1.2% of all emails sent are malicious, which, if you do the math, amounts to 3.4 billion fraudulent emails daily. [Read more…]