How to protect yourself from ransomware attacks

How to protect yourself from ransomware attacks by By Brian X. Chen.  Available from <http://www.bendbulletin.com/sciencetech/5315691-151/how-to-protect-yourself-from-ransomware-attacks> [Published May 24, 2017 at 12:02AM]

A decade-old form of malicious software known as ransomware has been making headlines after cybercriminals hijacked hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide.

Ransomware, which is often transmitted by email or web pop-ups, involves locking up people’s data and threatening to destroy it if a ransom is not paid. The global cyberattack has affected 200,000 Windows computers in more than 150 countries, including China, Japan, South Korea, Germany and Britain.

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5 Ways To Speed Up Your E-Commerce Store

5 Ways To Speed Up Your E-Commerce Store by Jason Hall.  Available from <http://www.businesscomputingworld.co.uk/5-ways-to-speed-up-your-e-commerce-store/> [May 23, 2017]

We live in an era where technological advancements are occurring at a rapid rate, and one of the most noticeable changes is the speed of the internet, which continues to incline in correlation with the number of users across the planet. As an eCommerce retailer, ensuring your website is fast isn’t a foregone conclusion, where many vendors face a combination of problems that lead to difficulties in developing a site which will run quickly.

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Social Media and Home Protection: 3 Tips to Stay Safe While Sharing

Social Media and Home Protection: 3 Tips to Stay Safe While Sharing by David Cohen.  Available from <http://www.adweek.com/digital/james-jorner-effective-inbound-marketing-guest-post-social-media-and-home-protection/> [May 27, 2017]

Daily social media activities can expose us to another more displeasing world of stalkers, burglars and other nefarious people. To stay safe, we’ll need to be more vigilant about what we share and how we share it.

From ideas, thoughts, inspirational messages and photos, right to the short pieces that we caption “#NoteToSelf,” we like to share everything on social media. And it’s funny because the more we seem to be sharing on social media, the less we seem to do so in real life.

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5 Ways to Keep the Cloud from Becoming Too Expensive

5 Ways to Keep the Cloud from Becoming Too Expensive by Matt Mansfield.  Available from <https://smallbiztrends.com/2017/05/keep-the-cloud-from-becoming-too-expensive.html> [May 15, 2017 ]

It’s a long established fact that moving to the Cloud can save your small business money.

However, there are costs associated with using Cloud services and, while they may seem small at first, they can add up to a lot if you’re not careful.
If you want to continue to reap the bottom-line benefits of working in the Cloud, you need to take steps to keep your Cloud computing costs down.

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Tips for Starting a Successful E-Commerce Business

Tips for Starting a Successful E-Commerce Business by Amanda Green.  Available from <https://www.promotionworld.com/se/articles/article/170511-tips-starting-successful-ecommerce-business> [May 11, 2017]

In the current day and age, it’s impossible to overstate the importance of e-commerce for small businesses with big ambitions. In fact, the estimation is that by 2018 the number of online shoppers in the United States alone will break 215 million. The promise of huge online markets has all kinds of businesses scrambling to represent themselves via the Internet, but could some of these online shop-jockeys be leaping before

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