Do I have Ransomware? How do you know if you have ransomware on your computer? Let’s say you sit down at your computer to work on an important project. After it turns on, you meet a popup that states, ” You must pay 0.3 Bitcoin to decrypt the data on this computer.” What do you do and what is ransomware? … Read More
Email Security – It Is Everyone’s Responsibility
Last week, the internet was set on fire by the Google Docs phishing attack. This attack was highly sophisticated, in that, it worked inside the Google Docs system. Many people clicked on this legitimate email, only to get their Google accounts hacked. What happened next is the scam was sent to everyone in their contacts. It gave the attacker full … Read More
A New Google Docs Phishing Scam – What you Need to Know
A new Google Docs phishing scam is making its way around the internet. To understand how this very sophisticated attempt works and how you could be at risk, picture the following: You are looking through your email when all of a sudden, your good friend Stan Perimeter has shared a Google Doc with you. Excited to see what your friend thought was … Read More
You could be vulnerable to this hard to detect phishing attack
There’s a new phishing attempt going around that is almost impossible to detect. This clever exploit makes bogus URLs appear as legitimate sites in both Firefox and Chrome, and can even mimic the green lock icon of secure HTTPS sites. Most users don’t know the difference, and even expert users can be fooled with these look-a-like URLs. The Chinese security … Read More
App Development Part 2 – Wire frames, Times lines, and Flow charts OH MY!
App development can be made or broken in the plan. Our experience at absolute has shown time and time again that if you want an app development project to succeed, then planning every step must be part of the process. The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry. If the author Robert Burns is right, then how much … Read More
You’re Hacked! 800 Million iCloud Accounts Compromised
Two simple takeaways 1. Change your Apple account password now (Before April 7th, 2017) 2. Consider activating two-step authentication. The Turkish Crime Family A group of hackers calling themselves The Turkish Crime Family has recently announced and presented evidence that they have obtained account credentials for 800 Million accounts. They claim that if Apple doesn’t pay the ransom by April … Read More
App Development Part 1 – Finding the MVP
You have an idea for the next great mobile app, and now you need someone to develop your app. Then you also need a website, marketing, e-commerce and maybe even the ability for your users to upload a special kind of unique data that only you know how to process correctly. Picture this scenario. You spend time detailing out all the … Read More
The most effective way to pull in more customers to your website
It’s true that getting your website found online can be very challenging. First, you must overcome the hurdle of ranking high enough in search engines like Google to be found and then overcome the hurdle of making your visitors stay long enough to find what they are looking for or contact you. The most effective way to get customers looking … Read More
Why Free Website Builders like Wix, Squarespace, and Other “Free Website” Tools Hurt Your Business
Free website builders like Squarespace and Wix control how your website looks and works. Talk with us- real local people who understand online marketing.
Highly Effective Gmail Phishing Attempt – Via Wordfence
Over the weekend Wordfence released information about a very effective phishing attempt going around that is targeting Gmail users. The attack comes in as a message with a link that takes you to what looks like a Google sign in page. Upon further inspection of the address bar, you find that though it has accounts.google.com in it also has a bunch of … Read More