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Facebook Wi-Fi

Facebook Wi-Fi Facebook is launching Facebook Wi-Fi, which is a method for customers to use your wireless network connection (Wi-Fi), to connect to the internet. Directly from Facebook's email marketing, promoting Facebook Wi-Fi. How It Works Facebook Wi-Fi will allow people to connect to your…

GoDaddy Has Been Compromised

GoDaddy Has Been Compromised This is directly from GoDaddy: On November 17, 2021, we discovered unauthorized third-party access to our Managed WordPress hosting environment. Here is the background on what happened and the steps we took, and are taking, in response: We identified suspicious activity…

What is Reputation Management

What is Reputation Management At Simply Web Services, our job doesn't have to stop when your website project is complete. Many of our clients continue with Simply Web Services for hosting, SEO, Online Marketing and Reputation Management. We continually work to optimize your success on…

Archives and Welcome

Welcome to our new blog, you will also notice some older posts that we feel are still worth reading. Enjoy

HeartBleed Got You Down?

HeartBleed Got You Down? We have been getting a ton of questions about HeartBleed and how it has affected you. So we have come up with a list of popular web sites and if you need to change your password. Keep in mind, that hackers…

Hackers Among Us

Hackers Among Us So far in the month of October we have had five web sites hacked, plus two major attacks against some of the commercial software applications we use daily at Simply Web Services. And one email password compromised. All the attacks this month…

Siri offers the latest backdoor into your iPhone – just ask nicely!

Siri offers the latest backdoor into your iPhone With two lockscreen holes and a fingerprint sensor that can be fooled with woodglue, we thought we’d given diehard iPhone fans a horse that was already dangerously high enough for them not to get down from. Read more here

Recycled Yahoo email addresses still receiving messages for previous owners – passwords included

Recycled Yahoo email addresses still receiving messages for previous owners – passwords included Yahoo announced in June 2013 that it was going to recycle inactive email addresses by giving them to other users who wanted them. Addresses and Yahoo IDs that had been inactive for…

iOS 7 Lockscreen Hole Discovered Already

iOS 7 Lockscreen Hole Discovered Already Lock screens have a chequered security history, with Android having its recent share of problems, too. The main reason is complexity, one of security’s mortal enemies. You can understand why some exceptions to a phone lock might be desirable, or even required…

Privacy – Government Is Tracking Verizon Customers’ Records

Privacy – Government Is Tracking Verizon Customers’ Records The National Security Agency is obtaining a complete set of phone records from all Verizon U.S. customers under a secret court order, according to a published account and former officials. The account provides fresh evidence that NSA’s…