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Online Security: Managing your online passwords

by Nicolette Tallmadge

If you’re active on the internet whether you’re blogging, have an email account, or you have or are building your website, or you have accounts on social networking websites, chances are that you have a lot of usernames and passwords that you need to keep track of. It’s not unusual to have up to a [...]

Tagged as: online accounts, passwords, security

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Web Security: Change your passwords frequently

by Nicolette Tallmadge

I’ve just spent a good part of yesterday afternoon changing the passwords to my blogs and my online accounts like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and others. I’ve got a lot of accounts so this took some amount of time to complete. Was it a big pain in the tail? Yup. So why do I do it? [...]

Tagged as: passwords, protecting yourself online, web site security

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Internet Scams: Avoiding the Domain Registration Renewal Letter Scam

by Nicolette Tallmadge

I get these letters around the same time every year. If you own a domain name you’ve probably gotten these letters too. Letters from domain name companies that remind you that it’s time to renew your domain name…that it’s important to renew today or else you’ll lose your domain name forever. The trouble is that [...]

Tagged as: domain name registration, domain names, internet scams

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Fight Spam by Hiding Your Email…two more things

by Nicolette Tallmadge

Here’s a couple more tips on how to avoid spam from your website. Some spammers will do what’s called a “directory harvest attack” (DHA). That is they’ll send spam by “guessing” at common versions or usernames combined with your domain name, such as jane@janepotmaker.com, jane.doe@janepotmaker.com, janedoe@janepotmaker.com, info@janepotmaker.com, or support@janepotmaker.com. When the spammer finally hits on [...]

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