Prevent Social Engineering in the Workplace!!

Prevent Social Engineering in the Workplace!!

by | Sep 16, 2022 | Company, hacking, internet stuff, local news, phishing, Security, Social Engineering, Web Development

Back on August 15th 2022, UBER was hacked again. It was compromised as a hacker gained access to an inter-departmental chat service called “SLACK” …and used that to spoof an administrative appearing message to gain an employee’s password and used that to access the rest of the network. Here is a link to the Tech Republic Article from the internet:  Uber Social Engineering Leak August 15, 2022
 
How does this happen? How do you KEEP THIS FROM HAPPENING AT YOUR COMPANY???
 
By LEARNING YOURSELF, THEN TRAINING YOUR EMPLOYEES!!
 
Here is a document that can help you do just that. I didn’t write it, I’m just sharing it so that the information can get out there, because obviously it’s not getting out there or these breaches would not continue to occur in late 2022.

 

UPDATE YOUR PHP TO VERSION 8.0 NOW!

UPDATE YOUR PHP TO VERSION 8.0 NOW!

by | Aug 11, 2021 | general, internet stuff, Modern, programming, Web Development, wordpress, Wordpress

UPDATE YOUR PHP TO VERSION 8.0 NOW!

if you haven’t updated your website to version 8.0 yet, you should. It came out early this year. There should not be anything in it that would break a site. The first main reason you should update is that support has ALREADY ended for versions 7.1 and 7.2 and and is in the timeline (the clock is running) until support for version 7.3 will also be ended. I updated 4 sites today without a glitch on any of them.

Some of the newer additions are the JIT compiler, which should add a little speed to your site, “union types” which is an interesting coding feature that allows more than 1 type to be used in conjunction, and “attributes” which now allows you to add meta data to a class. Also added are “name arguments”, a “match” expression which is like a super switch element, Constructor properties have also received a “step-up” in the game. There are new return types, and many other fun toys you will like if you are a programmer.

If you are not a programmer, you will just enjoy the added abilities it will give your site for any new code that is written in PHP 8.0, and the updates are likely coming if they are not already here, so you want your back-end to have the necessary tools to comply any new theme or plugin updates that are using it. If you don’t update the code version in your hosting environment, you can’t benefit fully from some of the updates.
If you are not a “techie” but you still want to benefit from this new update, give Everything I.T. a call, and let them safely backup your site and do the upgrade for you, or better yet, consider one of their annual maintenance plans.

CONTACT US NOW AND GET YOUR SITE UPDATED!

WHERE IS MY MONEY? About ACH Bank Transfer Delays…

by | Mar 4, 2021 | Web Development

So I recently was trying to figure out “how” and “why” money can leave 1 account, and not show up posted or pending at my banks account yet, but still not actually be “missing” (which everyone kept telling me, and told me to sit around and “wait” for it, which no one knows is easy, right?) What I did was try to transfer money from 1 account to another account, the money CLEARLY left the 1st account RIGHT AWAY…but when I logged into my bank account, it never showed up. Not today, and not the next day. And neigther was it even a “pending” transaction. So I began to panic…when everyone told me everything was fine and I still couldn’t find it, I began to panic. After I panicked, I did some research, and discovered this information.

If this has ever been you, you may want to read this clear and comprehensive article to how and what ACH payment processing is and how it works. It was very interesting and helpful information to me. I hope you find it helpful as well. (I’m amazed at how many bank and financial institution supervisors could never explain this information to me!) You would think they would be able to explain this simple process to me.

https://blog.abacus.com/where-the-hell-is-my-money-the-dirty-secrets-of-ach

How a programmer views the #1 Most Hated thing about 2020

How a programmer views the #1 Most Hated thing about 2020

by | Nov 22, 2020 | Web Development

Masks & Programming

Just a little 2020 Covid-19 Mask Humor For Your Day

It’s not THAT bad, right? We know you will look back on this year at times in the future, and this year was such a struggle for so many. We will look back with affection and remember how IMPORTANT it was to maintain a little light humor during all of it. When we are on the other side looking back, I want to give you a warm feeling.

Awesome New Divi Mobile Plugin

Awesome New Divi Mobile Plugin

by | May 16, 2020 | Web Development

You may or may not be aware, that if you own the worlds BEST wordpress plugin DIVI,  that you ALSO get ALL the other Elegant Themes products included with the original cost of your license…in other words, NO ADDITIONAL CHARGE. Divi in itself, is completely worth the purchase price of the theme simply by itself, it does hundreds of times more than any other theme on the market, all without needing to know any coding at all to design your website. It will literally do anything you want it to.But to get all these other products included with it, just puts the icing on the cake. How can you NOT be working with this awesome website tool?

But now, in addition, you can also this amazing new plugin that allows you to customize the mobile menu…a new feature. (There are other amazing plugins as well, social network sharing, email account contact management connecting, and others) To check out the new plugin, go here: DIVI MOBILE PLUGIN

To check out DIVI, if you don’t know what it is yet perhaps…you should go here and play with the demo…it’s awesome! Check the links below…

DIVI INFORMATION PAGE

DIVI DEMO TO PLAY WITH

880 PREMADE LAYOUTS TO MAKE IT EVEN EASIER!

Divi WordPress Theme