Not Every Website Is A Business…
I guess that’s stating the obvious, but I thought that it was worth looking at what some of your options are if you were planning on creating a personal website or blog. Free Hosting There are quite a few free webhosts around, but like most hosting services they need to make money somehow. The way they usually do this is with advertising. So whilst you can get the hosting for free, you also need to keep in mind that there may be a few ads floating around your website. If you Google ‘free webhosting’ you will find a bunch of...
read moreWhat The Heck Is SEO? (And Why You Should Know)
SEO is an acronym for Search Engine Optimisation. Basically it is the science of optimising your website so that it appears higher in the major search engine results. A higher ranking means more visitors to your website. In this video I summarise what SEO is and why you need to optimise your website.
read moreA Little Christmas Cheer
If you watch television, even just every now and then like me, you would have seen and heard the latest Target Christmas ads. When I heard the ad I was sure that I’d heard the song before. I googled a line of the song and sure enough, it’s a song by Shakin’ Stevens called ‘Merry Christmas’ that he originally released in 1991 and then re-released in 2007.
read moreAdd HTML Signature To Outlook 2010 – Video Tutorial
I recently decided I wanted to create a snappy new HTML signature for my email messages. In the past I’ve generally used a text signature, but I kind of like the idea of having my business logo at the bottom of my emails and links to our website and social marketing profiles. I had done HTML signatures for a few customers in the past so I figured it would be a fairly easy thing to do. I was right – it is fairly easy – if you are using a version of MS Outlook that isn’t MS Outlook 2010. Apparently Microsoft decided that...
read moreSeasons Greetings, Ho Ho Ho And All That…
Seasons Greetings We’d like to take this opportunity to wish all of our customers and friends all the very best for the festive season and the new year. It’s been quite a big year at CAS Netlink with lots of changes, new products and our new web site. Also, you’ll be hearing from us a little more regularly now that we have a much better newsletter system set up – and we’ll be sharing some info on how we set this new system up in the new year. Anyway, do stay safe and enjoy the break! Ballarat – Social...
read morePayPal Phishing Scam
In the tradition of many phishing attempts, this one is visually quite genuine looking. As you can see from the email message, it says that I made a purchase for $102.90. What you can’t see is that the purchase, apparently, was for a wig. Now I may be getting on a bit but I still have enough hair left that I’m not ready to shop for wigs – and I’m certainly not a cross dresser! This message plays on the fact that many people would see the details and immediately go into ‘what the heck!!!??’ mode thinking they...
read moreNew Facebook Email Scam
There’s a new email scam doing the rounds and trying to get your Facebook login information. As with many of these it looks very legitimate, but if you look at the ‘From’ address the domain on the end of that address is not facebook.com – it is t724p6uv.facebook-email.com. Also, when you hover over the Sign In button the address, which should be facebook.com is actually: static77-68-16-117.live-dsl.net:8887/facebook-friend1/t724p6uv Remember to always be on the lookout for dodgy addresses like that otherwise you may...
read moreHow To Create Strong, Memorable Passwords
One of the most common causes of websites and online accounts being hacked is weak passwords. Many people create simple passwords because anything more complex than a date or a simple word can be difficult to remember. I recently created a video that shows how long it might take to crack a password, given a certain length and complexity, and how you can create passwords that are easy to remember AND virtually impossible to crack. Sound impossible? Read on and I’ll explain and I’ll provide a link to the video at the end of this...
read moreNew Firefox Virus Email – Don’t Get Caught
Just a reminder that ANY email can have a virus laden link in it. The Mozilla organisation recently released a new version for its Firefox browser (version 8.0) and I’ve had a bunch of bogus emails with a link to download the latest version of Firefox. Like many fraudulent emails, these ones have been skilfully crafted and do look very legitimate. The only way you would know if it was a fraud would be to check the link that the download button takes you to. As you can see in the image below, rather than taking you to the Firefox website...
read moreBatten Down Your WordPress – Tim Thumb Exploit Is Rife
I had an email yesterday to notify me of a phishing site on one of my blog sites. The site had a theme installed that uses the ‘Tim Thumb’ library which was recently found to have a serious exploit. It’s serious because it allows a hacker to upload and execute files on your site. You can find out all about it as well as some instructions for updating/patching it HERE. The tim thumb library is used by a lot of WordPress theme developers and is common in many of the premium themes. I use WooThemes themes on many of my sites...
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