IDNS Internet Domain Name Services SCAM Letter

SCAM, Domain Name Expiration Notice from iDNS Internet Domain Name Services

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 We recently sent out a domain name renewal reminder to a client who replied that they had already renewed.

Suspecting a game was afoot, we requested a copy of the letter they received. Upon receipt it was apparent they had fallen for a common internet scam.

The letter they received was from a company called iDNS or Internet Domain Name Service. Sounds legitimate and the letter (as seen in this article) looks professional and legitimate. A closer look at the fine print you’ll notice that it is just a trick to get you to switch your domain registrar to them. On top of that, they are charging three times (3x) what we and most registrars charge for annual domain name registrations and renewals.

 

What should I do If I get a letter from iDNS?

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Quick Fix for Unpatched WordPress File Delete Security Issue

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  • THIS SECURITY ISSUE WAS RESOLVED WITH THE LATEST WORDPRESS RELEASE

PHP security researchers from RIPSTECH recently disclosed details about an unpatched security flaw impacting WordPress websites up to and including version 4.9.6.

This vulnerability affects the WordPress core, and not any plugin or theme. More precisely, the flaw was found in a PHP function that deletes thumbnails for images uploaded on a WordPress website. This flaw allows for the insertion of malicious code which may traverse the servers’ directories allowing for the deletion of crucial files. Something which isn’t possible without FTP or server access.

The severity of this vulnerability is reduced by the fact that only users of a certain access level (Author or higher) can attempt an exploit. However, if an attacker manages to register even a low-level “Subscriber” account on a site and then elevates its privileges, they can exploit this vulnerability to hijack the site.

Thanks to the security researchers over at RIPSTECH, they not only disclosed this issue but they also created and provided a temporary hotfix.

 

[su_note note_color=”#157BAE” text_color=”#ffffff” radius=”5″]Would you like prompt assistance? If you don’t have time or are not comfortable taking the risk of adding custom code to your website, let us get this done for you now![/su_note]

 

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Website Client Account Update

This is a notice to our existing website customer base, in short we are removing our web company tagline from the bottom of all managed websites.

Looking back, we cannot recall a single instance of a client requesting to have our web development company tag line removed from their website. For this we thank you all. We always added our web company tag line to the bottom of our web projects because we were, and still are, proud of our efforts and results.

Now that we’ve implemented a portfolio section within our newly designed website we felt that removing this tag line from our client websites would convey a more professional look. True, we can keep both the tagline and portfolio section. But we voluntarily removed the tag line from a client project and really liked the “clean look” that the copyright field had with our tagline removed. Another case of less being more.

We will be working on removing our tag line from everyone’s website throughout the week.

Again, thank you to everyone for your continued business patronage.

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Google Rolls Out Mobile-First Indexing

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Today, Google announced that it began rolling out their initiative of “mobile-first” website indexing.

Mobile-first indexing means Google will use the mobile version of a web page “for indexing and ranking, to better help our – primarily mobile – users find what they’re looking for,” the the company writes in a blog post.

What does mobile first mean for your website?

 

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Windows 7 End of Support Date

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Microsoft ended mainstream support for Windows 7 in January of 2015.

However, they are providing extended support until January of 2020.

Time to start migrating over to the greatly improved Windows 10.