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Chris Grant (he/him)

New ICO GDPR guidance: Passwords and encryption in online services and websites

The latest guidence from the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) could be relevent to anyone operating a website that allows users to log in, whether it’s staff, volunteers, customers, or the general public. Although the GDPR does not say anything specific about passwords, you are required to process personal data securely by means of appropriate technical and organisational measures.

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Chris Grant (he/him) 2nd November 2018 7:45 am
Security
Chris Grant (he/him)

Cyber criminals send victims their own passwords in Bitcoin blackmail scam

Cyber criminals are attempting to blackmail unsuspecting victims by claiming to have used the victims’ password to install spying malware on the victims’ computer. The criminals claim they’ve recorded videos of the victim watching adult material by activating their webcam when they visit these websites. What makes this scam so convincing is that the email usually includes a genuine password the victim has used for one of their online accounts.

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Chris Grant (he/him) 30th October 2018 6:55 am
WordPress
Chris Grant (he/him)

WordPress 5.0 due for release on Nov 19th (what to do to prepare)

WordPress 5.0 is still software in development, so we don’t recommend you run it on a production site, but it’s advisable to test your site with the new version to make sure there are no issues and to allow time to fix anything that does go wrong. Please contact us if you need your website tested with WordPress 5 and we’ll be happy to take a look and provide an estimate for testing.

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Chris Grant (he/him) 26th October 2018 2:03 pm
SEO
Chris Grant (he/him)

Using local SEO to target customers in your area

If you follow Google guidelines to get a decent amount of traffic on your site, you know one thing for sure and that is SEO changes from time to time. Right? Since Google rolled out Pigeon update in July 2014, Penguin 4.0 during 2016 and more recent updates throughout 2018, local competition has been heating up fiercely. So, if you are on the lookout for a way to target the customers of your area, you should start focusing on your local search rankings.

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Chris Grant (he/him) 26th October 2018 9:26 am
Security
Chris Grant (he/him)

How to keep the cyber-criminals out

Cyber-criminals use weaknesses in software and apps to attack your devices and steal your identity. Software updates are designed to fix these weaknesses and installing them as soon as possible will keep your devices & data secure.

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Chris Grant (he/him) 25th October 2018 11:23 pm
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Business
Chris Grant (he/him)

There’s plenty of advantages when it comes to webmail (web based email)

As you may know, there are two popular ways to access email – through webmail (such as the webmail service that comes with every website hosting and email hosting package we provide at O’Brien Media) and with email clients such as Outlook, Thunderbird or Windows Mail. Webmail is generally an easier way to get started as there’s nothing to install on your PC, Mac or Smartphone and you don’t need to and learn to use any additional software; you just open your email account with a web browser and off you go!

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Chris Grant (he/him) 5th October 2018 9:18 am

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