Web Developers recommending websites to small businesses is sometimes seen as being too pushy. One reason why is because social media sites are easy to use and free. While it’s great to have social media pages, there are some upsides to having a website too. I’ll go over a few reasons why:

One of the things I encountered while on Facebook, was a bunch of spam messages about some Bitcoin Forex guru. So I decided to take a look into the profile, and found a few red flags, pointing to it possibly being a scam.

Session Hijacking Details When you login to a website, it will generate a session or a token, depending on how the server is setup. If you check the “Remember me” box on the login form, it will keep the session or token in as persistent, and your browser will download it. After that, you can then go to said website, and the server will request from your computer the session, or will verify the token that your web browser has on file, then log you in if that’s valid. Where session hijacking comes into play is when said session ID or token is copied to another endpoint via malware (malicious software or firmware) typically. There are other means of copying said session ID’s or tokens, including manually, but a major channel on Youtube got hijacked with the malware method as it is the most common currently.

One scam that I have seen make a resurgance lately is the old check exchange scam. In this article I just wanted to give a brief of how the scam works and how you can prevent becoming a victom of it.

One of the biggest threats facing many regular technology users, is the scammers. Since computer security has evolved to the point where the time and effort to defeat it directly isn’t worth it. Not when it’s a lot easier to trick a user into calling a number and giving them access to a computer after a little convincing.

I had made the plunge into creating this site, custom in HTML using Hugo Static Site generator, mainly for the reasons outlined below.