Category: Security
Cybercrime: Common Attacks and Defenses
September 1, 2024This is the first in a series of articles discussing common cybercrime attacks and methods to protect against them.
Ransomware and Phishing
Cybercrime is estimated to cost the world up to $10.5 Trillion in 2025. Cybercriminals leverage a wide range of attacks against their victims. Attacks may include the planting of malicious code to take control of devices and capture personal data, credit card numbers, usernames and passwords, and other sensitive personally identifiable information (PII). Cybercrime impacts large enterprise institutions, hospitals, and individuals alike.
Protecting Your Social Media From Hackers
August 1, 2024In today’s digital age, social media has become an integral part of our daily lives. From staying connected with friends and family to networking professionally, platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn offer numerous benefits. However, they also come with potential risks if not used cautiously.
Create Your Own Intranet, Employee Portal, and Other Internal Tools
December 21, 2021Many businesses benefit from having some form of portal that gives their employees, customers, or both quick access to information and resources once they log in.
Some out-of-the-box solutions work for many businesses but getting a solution tailored to your exact needs, along with the flexibility to grow, is ideal.
Thanks to technologies like Progressive Web Apps (PWAs), Sharp Innovations can help your business identify how an intranet or employee portal can eliminate inefficiencies, streamline processes, reduce redundancies, and even present new opportunities through features like custom reporting and more.
Why Is My Website Being Redirected To Another Site? Here’s How To Fix It
June 18, 2021Whether you sell products on your website or get leads for local service work, having your site hacked and “down” for even a couple of hours can have a big financial impact on your business. So if you’ve noticed that your site is redirecting to another site, it’s important to take action right away to get it resolved. But before we get into the “how” let’s address the “why.” Here’s why your website is being redirected to another site:
Your website is redirecting to another website because it has been infected with malware. Typically this happens when a malicious individual gains access to your website through a vulnerable plugin or theme.
If it sounds like this is what is happening with your website, keep reading to learn how to further troubleshoot the situation and fix your website. We’ve personally diagnosed and removed malware from more than 60 websites for our clients, including a WordPress redirect malware hack, so what we share here is what we’ve learned from real-world experience.
Does My Website Need SSL?
November 13, 2020
Adobe Flash Player is Retro, But Not in a Cool Way
July 15, 2020Adobe will stop distributing and updating Flash Player after Dec. 31 of this year. That gives web developers, businesses, educators, and consumers less than half a year to integrate to open standards like HTML5, WebGL, or WebAssembly. In fairness, Adobe sent a warning about this change back in July 2017.
Adobe Flash is used for animations, mobile games, embedded web browser video, and other applications. A lot of website visitors (end users) don’t ever run into issues with Adobe Flash Player anymore because these websites have already integrated open standards and deprecated Adobe Flash Player plug-ins. Artists may produce Flash graphics and animations using Adobe Animate (formerly known as Adobe Flash Professional).
Excuse me, I think Your Data is Showing
May 26, 2020With the ever-expanding use of digital web applications, sites, and services for branding, customer and user engagement, and internal functions like time tracking and employee communication, there is an equally increasing amount of data continuity loss. Businesses need to be on the alert.
Few business owners, employees, or even webmasters are aware of the expansive indexing ability of search bots used by the top search engines. It is easy to find companies that have saved private lead data, internal documents, and customers’ personal data to the web if you know how to use search modifiers.
Duck…Duck…Go! New Search Engine Sensation is Sweeping the Nation
July 25, 2019Each week, you can find dozens of stories about popular websites, apps, and even search engines suffering from data breaches, selling users data, or running into other issues with their user’s privacy. With all these issues, people are looking even more closely at ways to ensure better privacy in their online lives.
Recognizing Online Spam Attempts
May 30, 2019Spamming attempts are varied and plentiful through the many technological advances we use today. We utilize technology in many ways and spammers are using the same technologies to trick users into giving away money and personal information. This makes it difficult to determine what is legitimate or not. There is one saying we use in technology: “if it seems too good to be true, it probably is.”
