| Keeping you informed... "We strive to maintain communication" by: HOST4U2.COM
|
|
The Website Legal Regulation Tsunami Continues
Surfers know that the waves come in periodic sets which are separated by relative lulls. Beginning in 2009, there’s been a tsunami of new and complex legal regulations for websites that also seems to be coming in sets. We’re now in a temporary lull, but the next set is on the horizon, and rapidly heading our way. If you’re an Internet marketer or operate a SaaS business, now is a good time to quickly review the following checklist of the set just passed, as well as the set that’s fast approaching. The objective should be to gain an understanding sufficient to comply with the new laws and regulations… and to stay above water, so to speak.
4 Critical Reasons to Review Your Privacy Policy Right Now
. A periodic review of your privacy policy is always a good idea, given the significant increase in privacy regulations beginning in 2009. However, at least four developments in the last six months provide an impetus for an immediate privacy policy review. Do it now to avoid significant legal exposure.
FTC's Game Changing Internet Privacy Regulations
FTC's Game Changing Internet Privacy Regulations!You’ve certainly heard about Google’s highly promoted BUZZ service which is designed to compete directly with Twitter by offering much of Twitter’s basic functionality with a Facebook like platform including location data integrated into Gmail. What you may not have heard is that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently made BUZZ the poster child for the FTC’s effort to show that the old tried and true privacy protection methodology is now not enough. Once again, the FTC has upped the ante for privacy requirements, and all websites are expected to comply with the new game changing regulations, or face the consequences.
New Privacy Bill of Rights Act of 2011
Your Site and the Commercial
Privacy Bill of Rights Act of 2011 By Chip Cooper (c) 2011 On April 12, 2011, Senators John Kerry (D-Mass) and John McCain (R-Ariz) announced proposed legislation that could become the first federal privacy and data security law. If passed into law, The Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights will have a huge impact on how personal information is collected, used, and shared by eCommerce websites. And penalties for failure to comply could be high, very high.
How Secure is your Password?
If your account password does not conform to the chart below as being Secure, we strongly urge you to change it NOW! With more advanced hacker utilities now circulating, we recommend you review your account password against the chart below to better insure the security of your data. At very least, create a secure password of at least 8 characters using the graph below as a guide. Your cPanel now has a graph to show you just how secure a password is when changing it. Be sure it is 100% Hackers will use brute force attempts to guess weak passwords and gain access to your site. If you change your password often, and keep it complex, it will help prevent hackers from gaining access to your site. When choosing a password, do not use dictionary words, they can be guessed by hackers within a matter of seconds. Below is a table of different passwords, their strength, and the approximate time to guess them using a brute force attack. |
| Password | Quality | Reason | Time to Guess | | password | Awful | Dictionary Word | Seconds | | 3men | Awful | Dictionary Word | Seconds | | my34car67 | Weak | Uses letters and numbers | Hours | | hMi4l67oO | Decent | Uses upper and lowercase letters and numbers | Weeks (80%)
| | g00Dp@ssw3Rd! | Secure | Upper and lowercase letters, numbers, and at least two symbols (!~#$%^&*) | Years (100%)
|
Important: Please Read
Please Read the following:With an increase of hacking attempts due to new and improved hacker utilities, 1. We are urging all clients to keep all scripts updated to current releases on a regular basis. 2. If you have scripts installed that you do not use, please remove/uninstall them. 3. Be certain that your account, as well as any script access passwords are secure. Please see below! 4. Most important, don't wait until something happens before you realize the importance of regular backups!  We offer Off-site R1Soft™ Continuous Data Protection (CDP) on all servers. R1Soft™ takes data backup to the next level with bit-level disk-based data protection. Rather than reading and backing up individual files, CDP backs up data on a bit by bit basis. R1Soft™ gives you a complete daily backup of ALL your data with at least 5 restore points at any given time. The feature is added to your cPanel where you manage, and able to restore anything from a complete restore to a single file on demand.
Please vist: http://host4u2.com/backup.html for complete details and protect your data now! Plans also include weekly and Monthly backups. |
|
|
|
|
Designed
& Hosted by: Host4u2 Hosting, LLC ® ©
|
|
|
|
 |
|
