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Phishing Email

Home > 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…

53 Plugins and 40 Themes from AccessPress Hacked

Home > 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…

Navy Federal Credit Union (NFCU) – Phishing Email

Home > 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…

Are You Still Paying for Antivirus?

Home > Are You Still Paying for Antivirus? 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…

Cyber Insurance, Explained

Home > 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. Cybersecurity insurance protects businesses against computer-related crimes and losses. This can include targeted attacks,…

Cyber Security Scans – Update

Home > Cyber Security Scans - Update We have achieved a 100% for this client on their insurance company's Cyber Security Scan. This includes their website and their office computer setup. Have Questions? Need Your Cyber Security Scan Reviewed or Explained? Contact Us Contact Us…

Cyber Security Scans – Part 3

Home > Cyber Security Scans - Part 3 After addressing over 900 findings in the Cyber Security scan report, I found that many were not from IPs in my subnet and were not related to the website being scanned. I started parsing the results, and…

Cyber Security Scans – Part 2

Home > Cyber Security Scans - Part 2 In our previous Cyber Security Scan post, we began discussing the findings of the initial scan. Here are the rest of the scan results.There are a total of 87 findings in the "DNS HEALTH" sectionThere are 0…

Cyber Security Scans – Part 1

Home > Cyber Security Scans - Part 1 This will be a multi-part blog post explaining one of our newer services and how we were successful for one customer.Simply Web Services, LLC, has always offered Cyber Security Scans as a service, but we never really…

Facebook Wi-Fi

Home > 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 WorksFacebook Wi-Fi will allow people to connect to your Wi-Fi…