Category: SWS Blog

Site Of The Month – February 2022 – AverageJoeWeekly.com

Site of The Month - February 2022 - AverageJoeWeekly.com Site of the month is a new feature for our blog where we will feature a Simply Web Services customer and their website. The Simply Web Services team sat down and went through a very long…

Google – “People Also Ask”

Google - "People Also Ask" Also known as Google Answer Box, Featured Questions, Featured SnippetsAn "answer box" is a Google feature that is usually displayed in a box that tries to answer a question directly, the answer is usually short and concise.Google’s "People Also Ask" section…

Phishing Email

Phishing Email Here is a new spin on an old trick. This phishing attacker hopes that you will fall for the warning and click on the link to change your password. "Phishing is the fraudulent practice of sending emails purporting to be from reputable companies…

53 Plugins and 40 Themes from AccessPress Hacked

53 Plugins and 40 Themes from AccessPress Hacked WordPress admins who use any plugins or themes downloaded from AccessPress are being urged to take action after researchers discovered that backdoors were installed in many of the app maker’s products months ago. The attack was discovered…

Navy Federal Credit Union (NFCU) – Phishing Email

Navy Federal Credit Union (NFCU) - Phishing Email Recently there has been a spear-phishing email going around for Navy Federal Credit Union (NFCU). The email has been coming from notification@noreply.com and contains a base64 encoded html attachment (Navy Federal Credit Union Attach Form.html). The attachment…

Are You Still Paying for Anti-Virus?

Are You Still Paying for Anti-Virus? I was recently reading this article "Still Paying for Antivirus Software? Experts Say You Probably Don't Need It", where the author is stating that most people really don't need anti-virus software and they really don't need to pay for…

Cyber Insurance, Explained

Cyber Insurance, Explained In our four-part post on Cyber Security Scans (1) (2) (3) & (4), we talked about Cyber Security Insurance, and that resulted in the required scans.Cyber security insurance protects businesses against computer-related crimes and losses. This can include targeted attacks, such as…

Cyber Security Scans – Update

Cyber Security Scans - Update We have achieved a 100% for this client on their insurance companies Cyber Security Scan. This includes their website and their office computer setup.

Cyber Security Scans – Part 3

Cyber Security Scans - Part 3 After addressing over 900 plus findings on the Cyber Security scan report, I found many of the findings were not from IP's in my subnet and not related to the website being scanned. I started to parse the results…

Cyber Security Scans – Part 2

Cyber Security Scans - Part 2 In our previous Cyber Security Scan post, we started to talk about the findings of the initial scan. Here are the rest of the scan results. There are a total 87 findings in the "DNS HEALTH" section There is…