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How to Make Sure Your Business Owns Its Domain Name
Article Summary: Your business should control the account where its domain is registered. The registration details, recovery methods, billing information, renewal settings, and DNS access should not depend on one employee, contractor, web designer, or IT provider. Once your website and email are working, the domain name rarely needs day-to-day attention. Renewal may happen automatically,…
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How Hackers Keep Access to Your Email After You Change the Password
Summary: Changing the password blocks someone from signing in with the old password. However, they may still have an active session, a forwarding rule, access through a connected app, mailbox permissions, or a recovery method they added. When someone gets into a business email account, changing the password should happen immediately. Once that is done,…
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How Long Business Computers Last and When to Replace Them
Summary: Three to five years is a practical replacement range for many business computers. The right time depends on security support, reliability, performance, warranty coverage, repair costs, and the employee’s work. Replace any computer that cannot run a supported operating system or the software your business requires. Most business computers do not fail all at…
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7 Unexpected Ways Hackers Can Access Your Accounts
The digital age has made our lives easier than ever, but it has also made it easier for hackers to take advantage of our online weaknesses. Hackers are getting smarter and using more creative ways to get into people’s personal and business accounts. It’s easy to think of weak passwords and phishing emails as the…
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How Do Websites Use My Data? (Best Practices for Data Sharing)
Websites store and use user data in many ways, usually to personalize content, show ads, and make the user experience better. This can include everything from basic data like the type of browser and IP address to more private data like names and credit card numbers. It’s important for people to know how this information…
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Ultimate Guide to Safe Cloud Storage
Since we live in a digital world, cloud storage is an important tool for both personal and business use. So long as they have an internet connection, users can store and get to their info from anywhere at any time. But while cloud storage is convenient, there is a chance that your data could be…