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Site Of The Month – February 2022 – AverageJoeWeekly.com

Home > 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…

Google – “People Also Ask”

Home > Google - "People Also Ask" Also known as Google Answer Box, Featured Questions, Featured Snippets An "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.…

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, which resulted in the required scans.Cybersecurity insurance protects businesses against computer-related crimes and losses. This can include targeted attacks, such as…

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…