Looking for a web designer may be a daunting task for the small business owner. This web designer will be the one that will be showcasing your business and personal reputation online for everyone in the world to see.
You want to make sure you get a professional designer but at a fair and reasonable price,
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Looking for a web designer may be a daunting task for the small business owner. This web designer will be the one that will be showcasing your business and personal reputation online for everyone in the world to see.
Although the subject may seem a bit personal, it really is something web designers need to understand to provide you the best solution.
A web solution can be provided to any client, but if the client type is not fully understood the solution provided can be a failure.
“Why client terminology vs. customer? I see customer as one time buyer, where as a client, your there for the long run. “
There are three common types of clients I commonly see, which one are you?
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It seems like whenever there is a major virus outbreak or vulnerability announced, such as the Heartbleed vulnerability, scammers and malicious hackers are not too far behind trying to cash in on the moment and innocent.
Here is a phishing email (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing) recently received in one of my not-so-important email accounts. One that is used mainly for signing up for things like demos of products or coupons and promo codes.
Usually those places end up re-selling your email account, thus increase spam/phishing emails directed to that account. So I never use any of my main/important email accounts in those situations and neither should you.
Below is the subject and body of the message, along with a screen capture of what it looked like.
SUBJECT OF SPAM MESSAGE: Heartbleed/OpenSSL vulnerability: password change recommended
BODY OF SPAM MESSAGE: (hyperlinks removed for precaution)
Although April Fools day recently passed, this is no April Fools joke. One of the most major security threats to the internet as a whole was on display for all to see. This vulnerability is listed as “zero-day” because the software developers have had zero days to fix them when the vulnerability was discovered.
On Monday, April 7th, 2014, a major bug in OpenSSL was revealed which allows attackers to read information from the memory from servers that had OpenSSL installed. Roughly 66% of the internet uses this application to secure your data. Northwoods Web Designs uses OpenSSL as well but was not using the version(s) that were vulnerable.
What is the Heartbleed bug?
This security bug takes advantage of a bug in OpenSSL (all programming applications have bugs, yes even Apple and Microsoft), which allows any normal user to read information that was stored in memory without any additional privileges on the server.