Running a website can be a lot of work. However, all your effort will be for nothing if your reputation ends up ruined by security flaws. Website visitors must feel secure while visiting your pages, especially if you are running an ecommerce website or online store. To be sure that your website security meets site visitors’…

In a real brick-and-mortar store, it’s easy for customers to feel confident about making a purchase. They can see and interact with items, checking their condition and reading any specification lists. They’re also able to supervise the checkout process, ensuring that credit cards are used responsibly by the clerk. And then they leave, holding both…

You have the idea and the ambition, now all you need are the tools and the know-how. Midphase can help your digital presence blossom with our easy-to-use Website Builder packages. Get everything you need, including email, security and a domain, for one low price. Read on to learn how… Whether you are just starting out…

The war against cybercrime has become one of the 21st century’s main battlegrounds, and America is on the frontline. In 2016 over a thousand data breaches were reported across the States, compared to just 38 in the United Kingdom. One in ten US consumers has experienced a cyberattack through their home network. While the government…

To an industry newcomer, or a graduate unschooled in computing lingo, web hosting might sound like a strange and mysterious procedure. Yet as anyone with a computing background knows, this process merely involves making a website’s constituent elements publicly available on a server. Sounds simple. But to succeed, this process involves a number of key…

Many people believe Apple devices are immune from viruses and malware, but sadly this is an urban myth. Some Apple owners argue their devices can’t be hacked unless they’ve been jailbroken, removing software restrictions to install non-approved apps. Again, despite Apple’s undeniably impressive security record, this is not the case. Although most viruses in the…

There’s a common assumption that younger generations are more in tune with modern technology than their elders. From 1980s’ teenagers instinctively knowing how to program the VCR to Millennials effortlessly surfing cyberspace, the tech-savvy youngster has become a media cliché. And yet, according to a recent report by T-Systems, Europe’s largest telecoms company, the kids…

Even if you haven’t heard of botnets, you’ll almost certainly be familiar with the havoc they can cause. Cybercriminals use them to perpetuate mass-scale data theft, bombarding people with spam or forcing entire networks offline in high-profile Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Worryingly, today’s burgeoning volume of internet-enabled domestic devices is making bot networks…

In this era of media disruption, nothing has infiltrated the status quo with more alarming effect than the rise of streaming. Streaming is a landing point after the millennium jumpstarted with the advent of illegal file sharing. Services like Napster and Limewire allowed for thousands upon thousands of downloads per minute, as long as your…

The recent high profile hacks that have shaken the finance, consumer, and tech worlds are truly shocking. The fact that companies who hold the data of significant portion of the population can be hacked should be a wake-up call for anyone who thinks high risk security breaches can’t happen to them. Striking Back While the…