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Google And Yahoo New Email Authentication Requirements The Google and Yahoo new sender requirements came into force on February 1, 2024. The goal? Make inboxes even safer and less cluttered with spam. These new guidelines mainly apply to domain owners who send more than 5000 emails daily to personal accounts ending in @gmail.com, @googlemail.com, @yahoo.com, and @ymail.com. It’s worth mentioning that all emails count towards your daily email sending volume, regardless of their nature...

source: https://theconversation.com/Authors: Syed Wajid Ali Shah, Jongkil Jay Jeong,Robin Doss Hackers can see your SMS texts and bypass 2FA security using mirroring It’s now well known that usernames and passwords aren’t enough to securely access online services. A recent study highlighted more than 80% of all hacking-related breaches happen due to compromised and weak credentials, with three billion username/password combinations stolen in 2016 alone. As such, the implementation of...

UKR GDPR After Brexit I have had a few clients ask me about this recently, so thought it was time for a new post on this thorny topic. The Brexit transition period ended on 31 December 2020, so UK organisations that process personal data must now comply with the following: The DPA (Data Protection Act) 2018 and UK GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) if they process only domestic personal data.The DPA 2018 and UK GDPR, and the EU GDPR if they process domestic personal data and offer goods...

Guest post by Justas Markus Do not expect a Macbook to perform the same way that it does the first time you start it. A time will come when you start to notice that it takes longer for applications to launch or that the loading screen after each restart is also not as fast as it should be.  Does this mean that you need to purchase a new computer? That is an option, but there are ways you can boost Macbook performance without getting another Macbook. If you want to find out how, read on. ...

Phishing is one of the most common methods of cyber crime and scams, but despite how much we think we know about these scam emails, people still frequently fall victim. Action Fraud receives more than 400,000 reports of phishing emails each year, and according to Verizon’s 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report, more than two thirds of data breaches involved social engineering attacks such as phishing. In this article, we use real phishing email examples to demonstrate five clues to...

Top 10 WordPress website maintenance tasks Very few things have disrupted the digital marketing scene as greatly as WordPress has in the last decade. Thanks to the platform’s free and simple content management system it made it possible for anyone, regardless of levels of technical knowledge, to create at least a rudimentary website. This possibility is boosted further by the seemingly endless library of themes and plugins. According to the latest stats, WordPress powers 35% of the internet as...