Has Your Password Been Hacked?

Recently Dropbox has been in the news regarding hacked account credentials. Before that, it was LinkedIn with stolen email addresses and password hashes, and also, Snapchat, Tumblr, Adobe, Android Forums, Bell, Comcast, Dominos, Yahoo, and the list goes on. How does a person know if their login credentials (e.g. email address, password) have been compromised?

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10 Simple Tips for Making Your Home Wifi Network Faster

“We often think of wifi networks as virtual, uniform fields that fill our living spaces. In fact, they’re very physical signals that can be blocked or scattered by walls, other electronics, and even people. Where you put your router — and what’s around it — make a big difference in the strength of your network….

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Heartbleed Security Bug and Your Forwarded Email / Google Account

Emerge2 has sent out two versions of this courtesy security notification to mailboxes originally setup by Emerge2. Mailboxes that are auto-forwarded to another address received this notification (below). Mailboxes that are not auto-forwarded (i.e. are directly read by the user) received a different notification (you can read it here). Copy of Client Notification (Forwarded Version)…

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Heartbleed Security Bug and Your Email / Google Account (Normal)

Emerge2 has sent out two versions of this courtesy security notification to mailboxes that were originally setup by Emerge2. Mailboxes that are auto-forwarded to another address received a different notification (you can read it here). Mailboxes that are not auto-forwarded (i.e. are directly read by the user) received this notification (below). Copy of Client Notification…

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Disgruntled Employees Updating Your Website?!

We have recently helped two of our clients recover from bulk deletions of their website content by disgruntled, terminated employees. Might this happen to your website? Or perhaps inappropriate posts on your Facebook page or Twitter account? Here are some suggestions to help guard against such “attacks” and the resulting panic and embarrassment when you…

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