Your domain name needs to be renewed yearly. If you are hosted with us at StarTunz, we’ll email you when it’s time to renew. Your email will come from our normal email account that you’ll recognize from our other communications. If you prefer, you can also subscribe to automatically pay your nominal registration fee. So […]
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How to Avoid Phishing
You open your email and a vaguely threatening message appears: What do you do?
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You see you’ve received a message in FB Messenger from a friend. When you open it,it says something like “This video looks like you!” Or “click if you love puppies” — something like that. You see your friend’s avatar on the message, so you go ahead and click. Now you see a notice that you’ll […]
Continue readingScam Alert: Bogus SSL Renewal
If you’ve read our post on SSL, you know that it offers important encryption protections of communications between your visitors and your website. Many clients look for the little lock image and/or the httpS at the beginning of your URL, and may quickly leave for security reasons if you don’t have it on your website. […]
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After a couple months of testing, I’ve finally found a new favorite password manager: RoboForm. I’ve urged my clients to use a password manager for quite a long time. Remember the days when you could use your pet’s name as a password and use the same password on multiple sites? I certainly hope you’re not […]
Continue readingScam Alert: Best of Business Award
A client recently forwarded me an email advising her that her web-based business had been awarded a “Best of Business” award. We’ve seen these come and go since about 2013, and it continues to resurface – and it is “new” to a lot of business owners, so I’m covering it here. Short answer:These are almost […]
Continue readingUpdating blog…
As I was streamlining and updating the site, I noticed that among the many years of blog entries on things like clean coding, site design, and especially security — many of the ancient posts are just too dated to keep. Since I like to keep my clients informed on the latest trends of site design […]
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