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You clicked on a simulated phishing test.
Tips to help you stay safer
in the future.
Tip: #1
Stop, Look, Think
Did anything look out of the ordinary? Did you recognize the senders address? Was it similar but not the same as an offical email?
Tip: #3
When in doubt throw it out
If you ever think that an email is suspicous it is better to err on the side of caution. Forward it to support@cksolutions.ie
Tip: #2
Do you spot a red flag?
Where you expecting the email?
Tip: #4
When in doubt throw it out
Tip4.
Did you know that over 13% of Irish internet users have experienced fraud of some description, while 16% of them had reported having their social media or email accounts hacked? The Irish Times surveyed over 1,000 Irish men and women and found that anti-virus use in Ireland is well below the EU’s 61%.
If you manage a website using the popular WordPress software, you are a sitting duck waiting for hackers to breach your site if you do not follow these simple tips.
1. Keep your WordPress installation up-to-date.
WordPress powers over 50% of the websites on the internet, which makes it a prime target for hackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Automattic, the company that develops WordPress, works tirelessly to fix any identified exploits by issuing updates with fixes frequently. If you are not keeping your WordPress installation up-to-date, then you are not getting these critical fixes.
2. Don’t use extensions unless you trust the author.
It can be tempting to customize your WordPress installation with thousands of plugins available on the WordPress Plugins page, but unless you trust the author, you should think twice about installing these extensions.
Popular extensions can introduce vulnerabilities that can be identified by hackers that will then target any websites or blogs that use the same installation. This common vulnerability allows hackers to focus on targetting thousands of different blogs with the extension installed.
3. Change your default login details.
When setting up your WordPress installation, you are provided with a default account with the username ‘admin.’ Because WordPress is so used by thousands of websites all over the globe, hackers will try to guess the admin password to be admitted access to your site.
Change this immediately to something more secure that you have never used on another site to prevent this standard method of attack.
4. Know the tell-tale signs of hacking.
You should maintain constant vigilance with your WordPress installation so you can quickly identify signs of hacking. Most hackers will not take your site offline immediately. Instead, they will insert malicious links to their content, or they will attempt to steal the personal information of your site’s visitors.
If you conduct sales on your site, you should take extra steps to remain aware of your site’s security.
5. Set up website lockdown to prevent brute force attacks.
Sometimes your moderators or other admins get careless and re-use login details or only change one or two characters in their passwords. To prevent brute force attacks on these accounts, you should enable the WordPress feature that locks out users after a certain number of wrong attempts.
Allowing three to five attempts to get a password correct is generous and should prevent you from running into problems with people who have legitimately forgotten their password.
Conclusion
If you follow this small handful of tips for your WordPress blog, you should be reasonably safe from hackers looking to exploit your site. The most important tip is to keep your site and any plugins you use up-to-date, since most updates are to fix known security issues that have been discovered.
Everyone should be on watch out for a very realistic email is sent to most eir customers with Refund Notification. That when you click link it brings you thought to another very well crafted website that give you are asked for bank details. They then ask for confirmation bank card details.
Be aware.
While using their WordPress sites, all the sudden the user sees something pop up. A notice to download some plugin in order to continue using their WordPress site. No problem. Just one simple plugin, right? Wrong. That simple plugin just got their site hacked as soon as it was downloaded. It could even be in a form of an ad on their site. If the hackers get a hold of an important file called the “wp-config file”, the person using their WordPress site is basically going to be in a world of nightmare. People would think that after years and years of these sites being hacked, security would try to make some better improvements. However, the hackers are still getting through.
With today’s sites, the key to keeping sites from being attacked is being cautionate. This is still applied to WordPress as well. Keep updating the password every now and then. The password should be something that can be remembered but also something difficult for someone to figure out. Make sure the right plugin or firewall is installed. The hackers scan what sites are vulnerable and find out which of them are the easiest to be attacked. Those failed login attempts that people get emailed about that they know they didn’t do, that is proof when someone is trying to hack the site. WordPress seems to be on the top of the list for hackers.
For a business WordPress site, it could be extra stressful cleaning out their malicious site, especially the impact it makes on their business. If this is the case, then the main focus would be the security. The slip up catastrophe could lead business reputation into a downfall and at the hands of the hackers, the site could be turned into something that nobody wants to see when they visit a business site- most commonly redirected as a porn site. A professional is needed to be hired for a top-notch secure site.
Even if people think that their WordPress site is very protected and top-notch secured, they can never tell if they will be the next victim. According to US National Vulnerable Database, the top security vulnerability has been with plugins avaliable in the directory as well as from outsite sources. If one WordPress site is hacked, it could lead to other sites being infected, causing that dramatic spike of hacked WordPress sites.
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Emergency 24 hour support is also available outside office hours on the same number.
you may have been moved over to Vodafone services for support
Vodafone Business customers
- From a mobile or landline: Freephone 1907
- From Abroad: 00 353 1 203 8232
- Fax: +353 (0)1 203 7620
- Support hours: 9am to 6pm Monday to Friday
- Email us
- Mail us: Business Care Team, Block GC, Vodafone, MountainView, Leopardstown, Dublin 18, Ireland
You having email server issues sending receiving, check out some of these tools:
http://mxtoolbox.com/
Or
http://www.dnscheck.ie/
Or
Email support@cksolutions.ie
- Open Email applications.
- Click into Tools -> Accounts or Mail -> Preferences.
- Under tools/preferences window, click the Accounts.
- Click the Server Settings button near the bottom of the pane. In windows you will see smtp settings or more settings.
- Verify your SMTP server settings with the following information:
- Outgoing Mail Server: smtp.me.com (for either me.com or mac.com addresses)
- Server port: 587 or 25 (some ISPs may block port 25)
- “Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)” should be checked (enabled)
- Authentication: Password
- User Name: Your MobileMe member name (without “@me.com” or “@mac.com”)
- Password: Your MobileMe password
Even after deleting a contact in Mac Mail, the contact’s e-mail address will still appear in the auto-complete bar. To remove an email address from the auto-complete list in Mac OS X Mail:
- Start typing the recipient’s address or name in a new message.
- Select the desired address from the auto-complete list as if you’d compose an email to them.
- Click the small down arrow in the recipient.
- Select Remove from Previous Recipients List from the menu.
You can also search for the unwanted address directly in the previous recipients list:
- Select Window | Previous Recipients from the menu in Mac OS X Mail.
- Highlight the address you want to remove.
- You can highlight multiple addresses by holding down the Command key.
- Click Remove from List.
Today we recieved a fraudulent e-mail claiming domain names very similar to are own. This is a scam.
Here is a copy of this e-mail.
———- Forwarded message ———-
From: “mark@ds-global.net”
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:44:00 +0800
Subject: URGENT Registration Notice For cksolutions
To:
(It’s very urgent, Please transfer this email to your CEO or
appropriate person, Thanks)
Dear CEO/Principal,
This is Mark Dong —Senior Consultant of domain name registration and
solution center in china. have something to confirm with you. We
formally received an application on August 16, 2010, one company which
self-styled “Everyboy Company” were applying to register “cksolutions”
as Network Brand and following domain names:
“cksolutions.asia
cksolutions.cn
cksolutions.com.cn
cksolutions.com.hk
cksolutions.com.tw
cksolutions.hk
cksolutions.net.cn
cksolutions.org.cn
cksolutions.tw ”
After our initial checking, we found the name were similar to your
company’s, so we need to check with you whether your company has
authorized that company to register these names. If you authorized
this, we will finish the registration at once. If you did not
authorize, please let us know within 7 workdays, so that we will
handle this issue better. Out of the time limit we will
unconditionally finish the registration for “Everyboy Company”.
Best Regards,
Mark Dong
Tel: +86-551-5223-174
Fax: +86-551-5223-175
Address:Room205,Block12,Youth Community(West),Ningguo Road Baohe
District,HeFei,China