I just read the report about the Sony breach and that the compromise came from an email message to a Sony executive that looked like a genuine message from a familiar contact. It was not and it had an executable link that drop the malware on that person’s PC. Once […]
Continue readingFree Web Sites * You Get What You Pay For
As the owner of a 20 year old web design, marketing and hosting company on the internet, I have seen it all. The one offer that stays around is the free web site. It is used, of course, to get you to sign up and get a free simple web […]
Continue readingWho Owns Your Web Site Domain Name?
This is a question that I immediately investigate when a new client with an existing web site come to us to do work. The most common problem is this information. Many business owners and new web designers do not understand the aspect of domain ownership, and they generally register this […]
Continue readingJim Mahlmann interviewed for Asbury Park Press Small Business Spotlight
Brick businessman combines tech know-how with creativity Asbury Park Press 12:03 a.m. EDT June 23, 2014 Jim Mahlmann owns NetCetra, a Web services business in Brick When did you decide you wanted to be an entrepreneur? When I realized that I enjoyed the creativity of expanding a business to whatever […]
Continue readingLinkedIn and Constant Contact Not a Good Match
One of my medical journal clients just found out the hard way that Constant Contact does not accept permission based email addresses from LinkedIn. The journal had over 2000 addresses from their Constant Contact list unsubscribed by the company that they deemed not acceptable. I was told that beside the […]
Continue readingBreaches on the Internet Are Very Serious For everyone.
As someone who is a partner is a data center with many different types of server applications as well as email servers, we have continual added more security through various means. A simple example of this is the quality of the passwords now required and the complexity of the “Çaptura” […]
Continue readingHeartbleeding Out: Internet Security Bug Even Worse Than First Believed
Warnings from Cisco and Juniper suggest the encryption bug is much more widespread—and potentially catastrophic—than initially thought as the networking companies check the vulnerability of their browsers. The Heartbleed Internet security bug is shaping up to be worse than researchers first realized, possibly compromising routers and other networking infrastructure for […]
Continue readingU.S. government pulls out of ICANN ( Domain Name Registration and Rules)
It may not mean much to most people but that is the US organization that controls all the domains of the world. The US being the biggest and most open nation has maintained control of the this organization through a relationship with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. […]
Continue readingNJBIA Vocational School Coalition for Career Education
Jim Mahlmann appeared in the March edition of the New Jersey Business & Industry Association’s monthly publication, the Business VOICE.
Continue readingMobilized Web Sites
Now that over 50% of all web site views are done from smart phones. Tablets in the US are at around 10% and outside the US; tablets are around 50 – 60%. Businesses are beginning to learn this information and are having their site “mobilized”. Businesses should remember that there […]
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